r/sportsgossips • u/United_Anywhere_8 • 1d ago
Video Australia’s first-ever NFL game begins with a land acknowledgment — and the internet is calling it INSANE, especially with Australia’s annual Sorry Day also in the spotlight
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Australia also has a national sorry day where the country apologizes to the aborigines every year.
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u/KCinOC 1d ago
Did she almost say Los Angeles Chargers?
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u/mountaineer04 1d ago
There was an Australian news anchor that said, “ the San Francisco 69’ers” that’s making the rounds on the internet. It’s pretty hilarious.
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u/Electronic-Sun-9118 17h ago
That would be the team name if it was Idiocracy
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u/oh-kee-pah 1d ago
No clue and who cares. Would love a charge doing away with any pregame shows and just START THE FKN GAME
but that's just me
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u/thevelourfog182 1d ago
And then stop it again every 10 seconds
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u/1970s_MonkeyKing 21h ago
It's called an 'Murican tradition to watch product ads for things we can no longer afford.
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u/gerald-stanley 1d ago
Oh man, come to Canada.
We have these BEFORE business meetings.
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u/Cosmo_Seinfeld 1d ago
It’s so over the top
I would be tempted to hold a short discussion for the group to make sure the "message was really heard."
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u/MainusEventus 1d ago
Also, can we leave the military and forced patriotism out of it?
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u/Thornwell 1d ago
Sorry Day is an incredibly Australian holiday name.
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u/classless_classic 1d ago
I would have guessed Canadian.
TIL
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u/Sloppykrab 1d ago
They would mean it. We don't.
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u/KgMonstah 1d ago
Yeah dead give away is the next day is national SIKE day
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u/CrescendoTwentyFive 1d ago
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u/Upset-Dragonfruit- 1d ago
I hope he's doing well. This is a story from a different time on the Internet
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u/Obeesus 1d ago
They don't mean it either. If they meant it they would give back the land. They just have white guilt and want to virtue signal.
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u/CircleOfWallace 23h ago
We don’t all have guilt, the majority of us find this incredibly performative and stupid.
My family came from Europe in 1980, what the fuck do I have to feel bad for
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u/TheSessionMan 1d ago
Canada has "Truth and Reconciliation Day" or "The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation"
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u/FuzzyTable 1d ago
Canada has one: the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, or Orange Shirt Day. The day remembers the children who never returned home from residential schools and honours survivors, their families, and communities.
In terms of land acknowledgments, First Nations have been reclaiming land left and right. So there is no need for the sorry day.
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u/Curious_Avocado2399 1d ago
“Sorry for being so brutal during that war, you had to create the Geneva Conventions ehh”
-Canada, probablyI love Canadians
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u/larsonious 1d ago
Sorry Day is a name? Jesus christ lol
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u/cathercules 1d ago
Just call it “Lipservice Day” and get it over with. It’s like removing Aunt Jemima from a label and saying see we’re making things right, stop complaining.
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u/Ok_Draw_3740 1d ago
lol, a sorry day
I can’t but help to think about that South Park BP episode
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u/LikesBlueberriesALot 1d ago
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u/MysteriousTravelator 1d ago
If they're that sorry, why not just give it back?
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u/-BloodGoblin- 1d ago
They're not that sorry. Just sorry enough to be politically correct.
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u/MysteriousTravelator 1d ago
I'm sorry I mugged you. No I won't give your wallet back. But that still makes me a good person because I apologised to you.
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u/-BloodGoblin- 1d ago
And now you understand Australia. They talk more passive racist shit in normal conversation than you can imagine... About aboriginals, Asians, just about anyone who bothers them. But it's playful! Had an Australian tell me "Abos are generally nice people, they're just simple minded" and didn't think that was racist. It's okay to call Asians dog eaters. But nooo, we're super nice people, just laid back and loving the environment ya know?
I'm going back to Sydney at the end of October, can't wait
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u/Exotic-Ad8978 1d ago
Have you not heard Aussies talk about white people?
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u/-BloodGoblin- 1d ago
I've heard Aussies talk about just about everything... In fact, it's been a while since I've heard an Aussie not talking.
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u/Greedy_Advisor_1711 1d ago
I mean it’s essentially Georgia (the USA state, not the Eastern Europe country) because both were essentially penal colonies when first being settled, meaning most of the descendants of that time period are descendants of undereducated criminals.
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u/BeneficialInside3901 23h ago
We got members of parliament who say you can’t be racist to white people an they belong in the bin 🤷🏻♂️
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u/OrganizationNo1298 23h ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Australia start out as a prison colony? Basically a big ass island they sent prisoners to?
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u/mikedeltabravo6 12h ago
Correct, was originally a penal colony with many Irish petty criminals. The most amazing luck you could imagine! If you stole a load of bread in England, they would send you to Australia, your sentence would have been fully served on the boat trip and when you arrived they gave you a block of land because they were also trying to colonise.
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u/doepfersdungeon 1d ago
A little reductionist. Reversing years of society and infrastructure development is a little harder than saying sorry snd giving a wallet back.
Not that I believe in the concept of a "sorry day" , It's all a little wishy washy. Some acknowledgement is healthy , but making today's citizens feel sorry for something they played no part is odd.
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u/dwaynebathtub 1d ago
Hold on there old boy. If you are responsible for "years of society and infrastructure development" why wouldn't you also be responsible for clearing the land of its people and history and turning it into fuckin' England (blech!)? Why wouldn't you be responsible for infrastructure development if you killed and stole for the right to develop infrastructure?
The British didn't kill everyone and steal everything though. Aboriginal people still live with you in Australia. You shouldn't feel responsible for your ancestors or the British people in the past killing people and stealing the land, because you didn't do that, but you should feel sorry for the Aboriginal lives and history that were lost when people showed up and turned it into Big Little St. James Island.
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u/DJ_DWreck 1d ago
You should not tell people how they should feel, especially on a sports sub ffs
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u/The_Pepperoni_Kid 1d ago
Exactly, which is why this whole thing is stupid. I'm not giving my land and house back I purchase a few years ago to the descendents of whatever tribe owned it 400 years ago and just eat the $500k. So let's all just stop this silliness.
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u/IcyPomegranate4973 1d ago
They have. They’ve given back significant land in just about every territory. I believe 40% of Australia is now aboriginal land.
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u/WildAmsonia 1d ago
Land acknowledgements are basically just performances. If you were actually sorry, you'd give the land back or deliver substantial reparations.
You're basically just stunting on natives.
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u/ModOfficial1988 22h ago
We force land acknowledgments all the time in Canada for pretty much everything. It’s performative bullshit that most people just roll their eyes at.
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u/ashep5 1d ago
Where did you get this clickbait ass title OP?
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u/bex199 1d ago
727 posts. 2 month old account. Dass a bot
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u/Few_Crew2478 21h ago
I wish there was a dedicated bot on every sub that called out shit like this. Or maybe if the Reddit admins pulled their collectives heads out of their asses they could mitigate bot accounts site wide with some simple checks.
But that would require reddit admitting this site is basically a psyop bot farm
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u/slaveboyari 1d ago
I enjoyed watching the football game. Were other people just watching a halftime show or a land acknowledgement ceremony or something and discussing it instead of the game? It seems the game took place in a foreign country, and we should respect their culture if we choose to host games there. Why should Americans be whining about what traditions and customs Australia chooses to observe on their national days?
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u/EchoInternational856 1d ago edited 1d ago
Nah man, ICE needs to go to Australia and deport all the woke because I only watch football for Aaron Rodgers’ political commentary
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u/KartFacedThaoDien 1d ago
Australia already has their own concentration camps so they don't need ICE.
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u/Noirloona 1d ago
The weird thing is a lot of Canadian teams also do land acknowledgements at the start of games and have been for a number of years now. Nobody's (eg USA) ever said anything about those to my knowledge.
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u/haubowtdemoshon 1d ago
Just went to a Blue Jays game in Toronto a few weeks ago, didn’t hear anything like this.
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u/Skip-13 1d ago
They do land acknowledgements every Seattle Seahawks game. This is ragebait.
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u/YovngSqvirrel 21h ago
No they definitely do not. I even checked the Seahawks’ official gameday website and they have no information about “land acknowledgement”
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u/Repulsive_Top_7443 18h ago
INSANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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u/ClammiestOwl 21h ago
We don't have NFL teams in Canada. It's weird they are doing an NFL game in Australia in general.
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u/RidethatTide 1d ago
Apparently they don’t respect their own culture. Giving Melbourne back to bush people is just virtue signaling - what would they do with it?
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u/Latter_Bowl_802 1d ago
Yeah but here in Australia the silent majority is sick and tired of land acknowledgements
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u/snrub742 15h ago
The silent majority don't give a fuck one way or the other
As is Australian tradition
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u/neinhaltchad 1d ago edited 1d ago
Can anybody explain to me when this rule of “you need to apologize for stealing my land” stuff begins?
Is it 75 years (Israel), 125 years (Australia) or 250 years (America)?
If so, what is the reason we stop right there and don’t go back to, say, Constantinople being conquered by Muslims?
Or Alexandria. That was controlled by many people during the Pharaonic era, then taken by the Macedonians, then the Arabs.
Should Egyptian Muslims return Egypt to Rome?
Should we make modern Italians have a day of apology for the razing of Carthage?
What are the rules?
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u/John-Dune-Awakening 1d ago
Well the most important thing to remember is that it's all performative. So really, just go for whatever makes you feel morally superior.
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u/BullTerrierTerror 1d ago
There is also a significant amount of money in it. The Native American casinos push this kind of stuff onto organizations which accepts their donations. Schools, charities, hospitals, arts and culture. So when you go to an event there is someone at the start basically doing the above. But a little less cringe.
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u/Pilx 1d ago
Sorry for taking all your land couple hundred years ago mate.
It's OK, can I have it back now then?
.......no
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u/Quietcrypt13 1d ago
Are the colonizers white and/or Christian? Then it’s evil no matter how long ago. Are the colonizers of a dark complexion and/or Islamic? Then it’s completely fine no matter how recent.
It’s literally the Family Guy skin color meme but in reverse.
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u/itsmedium-ish 1d ago
That’s why this is performative bullshit. Someone lets had the land first and had it taken by force. This is how the worlds always worked
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u/LeetcodeFastEatAss 1d ago
It was never about the principle of “stealing” land because the people promoting it have no principles.
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u/No-Profit4499 21h ago
shhhh you can’t be reasonable and historical here. everyone has their truths and lived experience.
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u/Wrong_Turn_91 11h ago
in Australia it is under 100 years and there are still land rights disputes being ruled in indigenous peoples favour. So that has something to do with it.
i live in an indigenous community and have friends who were literally stolen from their family. Its much more recent than the US
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u/ThunderousAmbassador 11h ago edited 10h ago
I think what is important about the custom is the recognition of the lasting impacts of oppression, genocide and prejudice have on communities. Regardless how long the stolen generation occurred ago, we should not be ignorant how this has impacted indigenous populations to this day and should be recognised for as long as the rest of the population can acknowledge we are the offspring of privilege.
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u/DJ_ICU 1d ago
"and the internet is calling it INSANE"
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u/Spirited-Juice4941 1d ago
“Internet SLAMS Australia” this reads like a maga news network
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u/Substanitial 1d ago
Sorry day is hilarious. Its like we're keeping it, so sorry bud.
It amazes me how Australian politics work. It seems like every Australian you see is essentially a redneck, I guess there's plenty of city Folk there that vote this kind of stuff in
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u/RzaAndGza 1d ago
The rednecks are also nature loving hippies and are generally fine with this stuff
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u/ProfessorJNFrink 1d ago
They were also fine with banning guns after a mass shooting.
Just changed the laws and everyone turned in their guns.
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u/RzaAndGza 1d ago
Yeah and they have virtually no gun deaths since then. Australians are woke as fuck
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u/mangione_fan_420 1d ago
TBF that's not woke, that's normal, it takes a special kind of stupid to keep letting children die so you can think you'll resist tyranny, but then not do shit when the pedophile in charge sends armed gangs to kidnapp people of the streets.
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u/Rozay10keys 1d ago
From a Democrat. People need better education on guns and keeping them locked up. You’re gonna get rid of them then only police will have the guns ? I don’t like the sound of that. The govt is out control. Tons of people die from car deaths. More can be done for car safety especially if lowering the speed limit substantially. 4x the amount of Europeans die from heat illness compared to American gun violence. They won’t adopt ac, that’s their right.
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u/king_lo702 1d ago
15,000 Americans die a year from gun homicides. Over 175,000 Europeans die a year from heat.
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u/PretentiousCrustacea 1d ago
And Conservatives don't want to do anything to address climate change either so I don't really understand what your point is
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u/nerdynelson 18h ago
Sorry Day is not about taking land, it's about the forced removal of indigenous children from homes to erase their cultural identity. It's arguably worse, but not something that can be undone, hence why it's remembered so we can all ensure it never happens again.
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u/plastlak 1d ago
It's just bragging with extra steps, unless you're actually willing to give the land back that is.
Imagine if the Turks started doing Constantinople land acknowledgement.
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u/NobrainNoProblem 22h ago
Here’s the thing taking land aka conquering is a unfortunate fact of human history. You won’t find land not fought over. You’re apologizing to the last people who killed the previous people who killed the previous people.
Nobody pearl clutches over the Ottomans forming a massive land empire assimilating hundreds of different people because it’s a fact of our past. Move on.
Apologizing for what transpired hundreds of years ago that you personally had no hand in is just insincere signaling. If you care put some money on it.
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u/kamacus 21h ago
Dude. You can’t speak logic here.
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u/NobrainNoProblem 21h ago
Yeah for some reason it’s a strangely political stance. Everyone is so outraged until it personally costs them something, that’s what disgust me. They don’t care sincerely because they know it wasn’t their fault they just want to be “one of the good ones”.
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u/United_Anywhere_8 1d ago
FYI The founder of Melbourne, John Batman, made a trade with the Aborigines. Rum and blankets for their land. When they woke up hungover the next morning, he slaughtered them. Apologies are pretty low key by comparison.
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u/tuktukkingroydonk 1d ago
Batman founded Melbourne?! Is that in the comic books?!
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u/Mooselager 22h ago
9 times out of 10, it is always a fat upper class white woman giving these speeches.
Pure performative bullshit.
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u/Impossible-Pain5827 1d ago
The thing that people forget is if your alive today someone in your Ancestry regardless of where you are from did something horrible to someone else and that’s why you’re alive but let’s spend our limited time on this earth apologizing for something you didn’t do to someone you didn’t do anything too
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u/Specialist-Age8210 1d ago
The people who were impacted are alive today. The people who did it are alive today. Most of this crap didn’t stop until the 90s, if at all.
Also, it’s an acknowledgement not an apology.
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u/greggreggreg1gregg 1d ago
Yall are watching the opening of a game? That’s when you are supposed to be taking a shit/piss or gathering your beers and snacks before the game actually starts.
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u/JC0978 1d ago
It’s so weird how much some white people get off on self-flagellation. And please don’t bother telling me this kind of silly shit isn’t anything more than virtue Olympics.
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u/Howdy132 1d ago
how fuckin lame. thier 1st NFL game and this is what they got to kick it off?
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u/ClipboardClan 1d ago
Why are they apologizing and continuing to stay there? Why not live up to the apology and relocate to England?
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u/LucidMarshmellow 1d ago
About 1/5 of Australia's population descends from prisoners.
Are they supposed to feel responsible for acts of colonialism?
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u/obviousthrowaw4y56 1d ago
Because moving forward means acknowledging past wrong doings, not sweeping them under the rug. How is that a foreign concept?
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u/ClassicWillow9261 1d ago
Frankly, I thought she was going to talk about the Lord Humongus.
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u/Mindless-Goose3590 1d ago
If America had a “sorry day” would people stop arguing about stolen land or reparations?
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u/Upstairs-Bad-3576 1d ago
The Los Angeles Charams? Also, I didn't know they made kangaroo fur capes. I want one.
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u/JChezbian 1d ago
Jesus Christ, why the fuck are we all crying about a Welcome to Country when it is literally the most appropriate event to do a WTC at?!
And yes we have a national Sorry day - because any reasonable anglo is sorry for what we did to the first nation people, including the stolen generation.
Stop being a bunch of sensitive little bitch babies.
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u/Electronic-Watch2822 22h ago
Jesus Christ all these pissed off milk toast babies in the comments….
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u/aussiechap1 12h ago
It's just far-left BS that 80% of the country calls it for what it is, a scam.
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u/Infinite_Shower_5390 12h ago
Sorry day is not a public Holiday. It commemorates when the government apologised to people who were removed from their family by the state…
Maybe stick to your own right wing culture crap before sticking your nose ignorantly into ours.
We do have other very important public holidays, ie The Kings birthday.
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u/Gloomy_Pirate_3031 12h ago
Haha we not only apologise we give them a free life they get benefits in every walk of life. Every form you fill out is like tick this box if you're indigenous and we'll give you free shit
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u/benjamininnit 11h ago
Just to clarify this is not a land acknowledgment, this is a Welcome to Country. If you listen she is welcoming the visitors to the place - she says you are ‘welcome to everything from the tops of the trees to the roots of the earth.’ This is sign of generosity and kindness.
This practice continues in Australia and many island nations in the pacific.
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u/boredidiot 4h ago
I need to correct this, as there is a lot of misinformation about this.
This is was not an Acknowledgement of Country. That is for people not of the first nations of the land in which the Acknowledgement to counter the statement of Terra Nullis by Governor Bourke in 1835 which was used as the excuse to take over the continent and ignore any claims of the people who had been here already for 60,000 years.
This however was a Welcome to Country which is a different ceremony.
That can only be done by someone who is from the lands in which the event is coming from.
Aunty Joy Murphy Wandin AO is a Wurundjeri Elder of the Kulin Nation, the people who lived where Melbourne is today. Naarm which some people refer to Melbourne to is the name of Port Phillip Bay which Melbourne surrounds, as it was the grasslands they lived on until the end of the Ice Age when the barrier at the mouth of the bay broke down and flooded the grasslands.
A Welcome to Country ceremony is an introduction of new people to the lands, telling the land / spirits that these people are guests and they are to be protected. So it actually more of a blessing on the event.
See it as nothing different to entering a holy site and someone giving you a blessing.
Too many Australians though do not understand this, do not understand that "Country" in this context is refering the land, the ecosystem and not a nation.
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u/-bears-eat-beets 1d ago
Other countries: we don't really mind what Australia does..
Americans: WHAT! THATS INSANITY!! WE NEED TO FIX THIS!!! 😂
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u/Objective_Ad7939 1d ago
Just play the fucking games. Enough of these bullshit ceremonies.
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u/PretentiousCrustacea 1d ago
I'm so over the anthems being played before the games as well just start the fucking game!
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u/Butthole2theStarz 1d ago
Yeah they should just run out, have the fans hype and then do the coin toss. I agree with you get rid of all the military acknowledgement and anthems.
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u/Prestigious_Window_8 23h ago
I don't know if you're from Australia or not, but we do these 'welcome to country' ceremonies at a lot of events beyond just sports. Why should sports be the exception?
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u/ExcellentRip1100 1d ago
How much of the profits of this game will be donated to indigenous causes/charities? Were there any groups in attendance? Or was this just a big show to make everybody feel warm and smug? Ahhhh right right. Okay so it is insane.
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u/wood1492 1d ago
Boy if now we gotta acknowledge every time a country has taken over someone’s land - then Spain has got a lot of apologizing to do…
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u/Affumicata 23h ago
Stop apologizing for your existence. This is literally demoralization. Stop letting them propagandize you into hating your country
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u/impercipient 21h ago
I've been to Australia. They acknowledge all the time. I went on a couple tours and they talked about it for 10-15 minutes on both. Not a big deal.
It's like wondering why Germany has a holocaust memorial.
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u/iaeoioaio 1d ago
What happened to aboriginal people is some of the worst shit I have ever read. Those former Brits over there were wild
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u/Longjumping_Space_10 1d ago
What’s wrong with a land acknowledgement?
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u/cathercules 1d ago
They come off as performative nonsense, they don’t bother me but they seem disingenuous. I don’t get bothered by corporate pride stuff either but it’s insincere.
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u/warriordwarfpang 1d ago
Lol its the least you can do, but I also get americans (the internet) are weird about this stuff.
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u/TravelNSee 1d ago
Translation: racist internet trolls descending from bad people, sob over others being considerate humans.
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