'You asked me here to help you see your racism, but by god, I’d better not actually help you see your racism.' - Prof Robin DiAngelo, sums up equity and diversity work perfectly. #marginsci
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'This is literally the term used to describe the impact of a brief and isolated [anti-racism] workshop: trauma. This trauma has required years of avoiding the topic... [and] has also ensured that the organisation has remained overwhelmingly White.'https://medium.com/s/story/how-white-people-handle-diversity-training-in-the-workplace-e8408d2519f …
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Yes most persons that moved to continent Oz since 1788 have done little to assist the equitable resolution of past dispossession of First Nations/First Owners. Oz systems are still underlaid with false concept that First Owners were aimlessly wandering hunters/gatherers.
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It still does, this thinking and perception, the only difference is, our First People background mates are now perceived as benefit bludgers, domestic violent practitioners & even more disgusting locker room talk. The path to
#socialjustice & equity remains an arduous one. -
Long history of adverse stereotyping in Oz & also structural veil of invisibility thrown over Oz First Nations/First Owners during terra nullius Oz law era (1770-1992). The wandering hunter gatherer stereotype is a staple of those in Oz that unsupportive of FN Sovereignty claims.
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