Sorry Days!
Can the PC'ers get any more depraved and can parents get any more wussified.
Can the PC'ers get any more depraved and can parents get any more wussified.
From the article: CHILDREN as young as eight are being taught to sing sorry to Aborigines ... When one eight-year-old boy arrived home confused about the issue, his father labelled the song's inclusion a "political stunt". Hamish East, of Kiama, said he had to explain the meaning of the song to his son Brian when he believed he had done something wrong.
Clarification: My point here is that children shouldn't be used to make political points. Adults may do as they please, but not with taxpayer funds.
Larger point: Holding future generations responsible for the actions of their ancestors is counterproductive and only makes permanent victims of those they seek to "help" whether these victims are aborigines in the Antipodes or the descendants of slaves in the U.S.
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Also from the article: "A widely distributed song book, which has been used in NSW for 40 years, has included Sorry Song about the Stolen Generation in its recent editions."
It seems to me that a song of apology for the "Stolen Generation" is the very least that they could do, and the fact that the song is not universally taught to Australia's children is a shame.
Not because the apology song means anything to the Aborigines, but because it's an acknowledgement of sin by the Euro-descended Australians, which is important to their repentance.
The Japanese, for instance, still can't bring themselves to universally admit that they behaved savagely during WW II, and that they also kept and abused women as sex slaves during the same time. It hinders their development as a wise and psychologically-mature peoples.
My objection to the "Sorry" song is that the schools are using children to make a political point. I'm still learning about public blogging. Readers aren't in my head, so my meaning must be clearer. So few brain cells left and so much to learn.
Adults can do as they wish, however, in general I object to subsequent generations being held responsible for crimes or shortcomings of their ancestors, especially when they have taken steps to correct past wrongs.
Continuing to beat a dead horse isn't productive and making permanent victims out of a populations like the Maoris (or ghetto blacks here at home) helps no one, but makes celebrities and millionaires out of their pimps.
LOL oroborous - wonderful satire.
Thank you very much, but I meant every word.
It's funny, the world being what it is, I often can't tell if someone is being ironic either.
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