The Lingering Stench of White People Bullshit

Congratulations to Mister Bruce Trevorrow who successfully argued that the Australian government's 60-year-policy of taking Aboriginal children away from their families was, essentially, forced imprisonment (The story is here).

Trinity University offers a comprehensive overview of this Stolen Generation of brown people, in case you're feeling thirsty for knowledge on this warm summer's day.

The site offers a fascinating, dare I say appalling, explanation how a 400 year-old-nation (built by prison laborers and greedy gold rush enthusiasts) could deem themselves superior to the indigenous folks who'd lived there 40,000 years (or more).

But that's white people for you:

These days, half-nekkid, muscular white children in a tree-hut (with one brown girl thrown in for good measure) is the epitome of the aspirational WASP dream.

History reminds us, however, that half-nekkid brown people in the scrubby underbrush was an excuse for genocide.