Falkland Islanders to hold referendum over sovereignty

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Why are all these colonials getting upset with each other?

[Dauphin]

I think you just lost A LOT of credibility, pity

To lose it, one must have it to start with.

What he's lost is the will to put in effort.

[Alexander's Horse]

I think you just lost A LOT of credibility, pity

[Tupac Shakur]

[Tupac Shakur]

[Tupac Shakur]

Get those Puritans.

[Alexander's Horse]

well no, as I said, you seem to suffer from reverse racism, the Maori were no better than anyone else

[Tupac Shakur]

**** yes.

[Tupac Shakur]

The Maori are so awesome. God bless the few native peoples who managed to teach the racist, genocidal Brits a lesson.

[Alexander's Horse]

There is a simple reason for that - the Maoris were stronger and better organised, they got the treaty of Waitangi after the Maori wars. No difference in the pattern really.

[Tupac Shakur]

Give credit where credit is due; the Kiwis have been pretty racially tolerant for a British-descended country. I doubt they would've been that different from Australia if the Maori hadn't forced them to play nice by being complete badasses, but they've mostly behaved themselves since the British finished their land grab in New Zealand.

[Alexander's Horse]

my point and that report are not in conflict, as I mentioned, the belief was that the aboriginal race was dying out, that was racist, and racists did use the policies to try and speed aboriginality into oblivion. The children were taken, or rather in some cases given up voluntarily, to "rescue" them. It only made matters worse in the long run, though there were some success stories. The same or similar policies were pursued across the english speaking world at the time.

[Tupac Shakur]

I'm not going to defend the indefensible

Thank you. That's all I ask.

[Alexander's Horse]

I'm not going to defend the indefensible but the claim of genocide in that government report is pretty ludicrous and merely a sop to the far left and the aboriginal "industry", which is killing aboriginal people by patronising and infantalising them just as effectively as the settlers ever did. When will we ever learn?

[regexcellent]

They didn't have much society in the first place.