You think I’m a snowflake? He’s the snowflake making this an issue about being offended by a song. He has never been hard done by in life and will have it easier than any of us if he fucks up.
He should be talking about his people taking responsibility for their own actions and parents raising their children right from the get go if he wants to shine light on the real issues. ‘We’ the whitey as I got referenced in my stays in the top end do nothing but try and break this cycle of rape, drug and alcohol abuse but they do nothing to help themselves on.
He has the right to protest like anyone else I would never decline that and would fight for his right to do so. But do so on your own time. The NRL is a private company, you only need to look as far as how much money the NFL bled when they let the same issue run rampant and media damage.
He should be doing tours of remote towns and showcasing how the NRL can change your life. Not using it as the platform to grandstand from if he really wants to help.
Working in several mining towns for years and just watching everyone receive royalty payments from BHP piss is all away on ice and booze then bash their wife while their kids wander the streets selling themselves I have 0 sympathy or time for the matter anymore but have experienced the issues first hand.
You want to help aboriginals? Go to the outback and do something useful stop yapping to the fucking journos.
Do you know for a fact he hasn’t visited remote towns? Or doesn’t plan to do so?
He should do this, he should do that..... he doesn’t need you telling him what he should or shouldn’t do, and getting angry about him exercising his right to protest achieves sweet fuck all, mate. If his employer has an issue with the way he expresses himself and he is seen to be breaching his contract or neglecting his duties, his employer will address it with him.
I think I see your point- that this form of protest only exacerbates the low self esteem mentality that leads to self destructive and negative behaviour patterns, but there’s a reverse school of thought that angry people fuming about Indigenous people who are in a position to speak exercising their freedoms and telling those who have found success how they should help their communities exacerbates these behaviour patterns in itself.
He’s not handing anyone a bottle or a crack pipe, he’s expressing his point of view and getting a bee in your bonnet about it is no more constructive than you think his behaviour is.
Nobody is ever going to convince anybody to adopt a more reconciliatory attitude by yelling at them or talking down to them.... it’s high time we had a proper dialogue about this rather than trying to talk over indigenous people who do have a voice.
Wgat eould be the big issue about considering a new anthem that is more representative of Australia today? The vast majority of Australians don’t even know the second verse anyway. It only seems to be precious to a lot of people when others question it.