Lidia Thorpe has also believed before the vote that a No vote would prove Australia is racist, just as a yes vote would prove Australia is racist. Given that, I think Lidia would agree with the author here.
Tau@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
Last year, Australia showed how unengaged and racist this country remains by refusing to insert an Indigenous advisory voice
Convenient that the author forgot to mention that the very person they’re writing about was a vocal No voter. You can say many things about Lydia Thorpe but politically unengaged is not one of them, and while she might be a little bit racist it’s definitely not against Indigenous people.
I’ll also note that the Tent Embassy had a giant banner hung up urging people to vote No, guess they’re all politically unengaged and racist…
yistdaj@pawb.social 4 weeks ago
yistdaj@pawb.social 4 weeks ago
To clarify, Lidia claimed that both the racist no campaign and the yes campaign drowned out the progressive yes campaign.
NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org 4 weeks ago
That’s true, although she wanted a different voice and treaty right?
If you look at where majority no came from you’d have a hard time convincing me it was because people thought the voice wasn’t radical enough.