By "we" do you mean "Europeans and their colonial spawn" and by "this place" do you mean "earth"?

America still had slavery in the 1940s when the last slave was freed (might've been later than that) and it still has slavery in the form of prison labor

They didn't even class indigenous Australians as people, until late 1960's. They were considered fauna.

hahahahaha you think this is late???

It was a British penal colony up until 1840

And he might have ended up being a standup dude in another time.

That’s something that I think about often.

The average intelligence of the population of the world isn’t that great. Most people accept whatever reality is instilled in them. If you take a little baby and raise it up to think of some people as animals, they’ll probably never question it, and being surrounded only by people who accept that reality, they’ll never have a reason to question it. I very rarely meet a person who has ever really questioned their reality. It always surprised me when I do.

Most abolitionists came from a world where they were they weren’t exposed to slavery, so they were able to question it. Even then, only around 2% of the population were abolitionists, they just fought really hard for their cause until it rose up high enough to actually be considered for action.

I’m not even putting myself into that small group of people smart enough to question their reality. If I hadn’t grown up with the internet there’s a good chance I’d be a preacher in a Pentecostal holiness church somewhere. That small handful of people who question their reality help spread their questions to the idiot masses.

That’s why I admire people who fight for positive change above all other people. They fight an uphill battle daily. Sometimes they win big and I’m grateful they do.

Every one of those people said it's effectively slavery.

No John Browns in Australia.

Hey you could get a token reservation increased policing a nation that thinks themselves native and have since 1740 at the very least.

I can't speak for anyone else, but the lyrics you wrote are the only lyrics to the entire song that I know, and I've always thought it was just some weird gibberish. Granted, I've never actively listened to it or sought it out, I've only heard it in passing.

Well, they all have the same expression on their faces, probably because there's only one way to feel when you're chained up and made to sit on the floor while someone takes your picture.

Did your dumbass really just look at a group of slaves and say "Wow they all look the same to me, they must be inbred?"

What the fuck is wrong with your brains, Lemmy?

Theres every chance they're all closely related too.

Australia is a big place but people didnt travel far

I think the similarity is due to their facial expression, caused by them being displayed like item under bright sunlight.

Ah yes, just a tiny 7,692,024 km2 island, just a quick 150km Kai Marina sailing trip from PNG and Indonesia.

Human genome studies continue to explore the the genetic diversity of indigenous Australians, as it's a key to help understand early human migration. ABC summary of the genome report.

Australia is really not that much smaller than the lower 48 of the USA, and yet people (mostly Americans) seem to think it's some tiny rural island.

Look like scars

I think it might be ritual scarification, but it could be torture marks as well. I'm not well-versed on this period or region of history.