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Absolutely WOC fans have also been part of dismissing and harassing Aboriginal women, mostly from USA & elsewhere. Much the same way some Black American women excused Bill Cosby. It's separate but related. 1/2
2/2 First, WOC esp overseas don't understand race relations in AUS & how Aboriginal women are positioned. Second, women from all groups participate in patriarchy. Neither is an excuse for the abuse. Here, I focus on WW in academia because that's what this article speaks to
that's what the article speaks to for you, but not necessary for those who it tried to walk all over. For me, the article is an example of settler-colonials in Australian academia, media, popular culture, politics, policy etc. And that's not necessarily just about whiteness.
I'm not sure that black Americans (or black Australians) really get that blak Australia is different, and has more in common with other Indigenous cultures in colonised lands than with their ideas of a panAfrican worldwide idea of black identity.
I've seen a lot of piss poor "Noah and his defenders can't be racist because he's black and so are they" which just wholly misses the point. It's like there's a lack of willingness to accept that POC are settler-colonials on Aboriginal land too.
I was genuinely shocked at the way some black women responded and that's as someone who has studied hegemonic whiteness, origins of scientific racism, phrenology etc
for them it's about maintaining settler-colonial control, which they benefit from. This issue is not white vs black. It's about the ongoing power & privilege of colonisation.
Yeah it was super defensive and my god the disrespect altho I was also thinking about the ways white Aust hegemony demands conformity to the national script and 200 years of scientific racism misrepresenting Aboriginality globally
yes to all that. Because of patterns of human-movement (inc invasion) this mess has been going on for centuries and has many layers, but I think it's important for everyone to understand how they fit into this settler-colonial mess we now have live with/in.
Oh absolutely I didn't mean to imply "200 years and now it's finished" like seeing those stereotypes in TN threads - including infantilising far out - still being perpetuated... dreadful
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