tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post4089652275273271411..comments2023-11-03T00:06:36.875+11:00Comments on Bunyipitude: Larissa's Broken RecordBunyiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14668398379654771814noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-35281338381755955442011-10-03T19:45:26.268+11:002011-10-03T19:45:26.268+11:00Pity Bolt hadn't researched the subject like P...Pity Bolt hadn't researched the subject like Prof B has. It's not as if he isn't paid handsomely to do that stuff.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-53895590292728382842011-10-01T15:02:41.565+10:002011-10-01T15:02:41.565+10:00Mike Carlton as usual puts foot in mouth today:
&...Mike Carlton as usual puts foot in mouth today:<br /><br />"In fact, Behrendt's father was a black Australian. She - and the other eight plaintiffs in the case - were raised from infancy in Aboriginal culture and society. Given that crashing blunder, the rest of his stuff falls in a heap, exposed for the racist garbage it was."<br /><br />Read more: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/nuts-come-out-after-the-truth-has-bolted-20110930-1l1al.html#ixzz1ZVFLm9sRandydnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-5704809508108574982011-10-01T11:56:20.842+10:002011-10-01T11:56:20.842+10:00No 17 etc, he means verification.No 17 etc, he means verification.Kevhttp://www.kevgillett.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-62419358895280603722011-10-01T07:29:58.029+10:002011-10-01T07:29:58.029+10:00"however, the confusing trails make even the ..."however, the confusing trails make even the simplest attempt at verification an energetic exercise"<br />Surely you meant "vilification"?<br />Typo?1735099https://www.blogger.com/profile/17945140949290600423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-37599196474737050562011-09-30T18:55:59.125+10:002011-09-30T18:55:59.125+10:00I can assure you all that most everyday nose-to-th...I can assure you all that most everyday nose-to-the-grindstone Blackfellas have never heard of Behrendt nor Bolt.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-68541732666349724012011-09-30T18:40:59.669+10:002011-09-30T18:40:59.669+10:00@1:25am: Fingers have nothing to do with it. It...@1:25am: Fingers have nothing to do with it. It's been too wet to play golf, but wet or not I intend to go fishing for a few days, starting tomorrow.Bunyiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14668398379654771814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-32035719098801365642011-09-30T18:25:06.890+10:002011-09-30T18:25:06.890+10:00How many finger tips does a bunyip have? So many ...How many finger tips does a bunyip have? So many intricate details all adding up to revealing posts in recent days. And, needless to say, carrying the torch in lieu of others, who have been brutally snuffed out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-18981023711105351332011-09-30T15:33:25.664+10:002011-09-30T15:33:25.664+10:00Transferring from Melbourne to the Far North in my...Transferring from Melbourne to the Far North in my work certainly gave me a different aspect from the romantic view from afar. I worked with, played sports with and even shared accommodation with aboriginals as team members. They were all people that I enjoyed the company of and respected.<br />But, the fact is that there are advantages to claiming aboriginal heritage - until I went north I never realised that aboriginal children were paid to go to school, sitting next to white children who were not. I know of one (white) single mother who had been married to a Fijian sending her child through University as an Aboriginal, because she couldn't afford the fees that she would have to pay otherwise.<br />There are numerous examples of Government largesse that could be quoted - but perhaps the most telling comment is the fact that Aborigines themselves call their Centrelink payments "sit down money" - the fact that this Government has excluded a leader such as Noel Pearson from having input into policy is criminal, as he has done a great deal to help aboriginal communities to restore their dignity by persuading them to work for this money in improving their own surroundings and conditions.<br />I doubt that their would be few whites living in the north who haven't had to run the gauntlet of drunk Aborigines in the street, listening to themselves being called "White C....t" on a regular basis.<br />I don't profess to know the answer to these problems, but I do know that throwing money at them hasn't worked, and that these Racial Vilification Laws don't help either if they limit free speech from people trying to circumvent the "professional" aborigines who get themselves positions of influence without any real accountability for either the money invested or the lack of results.<br />These Laws are useful to those who want to hide behind them, the case of several Christian Priests being prosecuted for reading out quotations from the Khoran in Melbourne is another case in point. I would doubt that any average Australian would ever bring a case under these laws - it is only Political Activists who will ever use them - to stifle debate!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-23361227796691176392011-09-30T15:11:46.864+10:002011-09-30T15:11:46.864+10:00Indeed, Anonymous (8:55 PM). These days why can...Indeed, Anonymous (8:55 PM). These days why can't any of us declare ourselves to be aboriginal if all it takes in "the vibe"? It would be hurtful and insulting for fellow dusky natives such as Miss Behrendt to argue otherwise.Walter Plingenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-44310780575414549442011-09-30T14:01:30.996+10:002011-09-30T14:01:30.996+10:00Don't get me wrong, Anonymous 2, I am all for ...Don't get me wrong, Anonymous 2, I am all for accepting all as Australian, regardless of their origins, and for recognising and helping those who are culturally Aborigines. But where we are now is entrenching a dangerous, racist basis for discriminating positively. <br /><br />Do the urban elites really was us to start labelling people as being of a particular race simply because they have some fraction of Aboriginal 'blood'? That seems to me to be a highly retrograde step, that the rest of the World left behind with the end of Apartheid. Without a decent cultural 'test', what is the minimum percentage of 'blood' that should qualify? 25% is obviously OK, but what about 12.5%? 6.25%Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-23423463302103083812011-09-30T13:55:10.588+10:002011-09-30T13:55:10.588+10:00"During the fifties, when "conformity&qu..."During the fifties, when "conformity" was discussed, dissected, and feared, white middle class Americans saw African-American identity as being uniquely "authentic." In the seventh chapter I focus on post-war blackface—not as a performance for the entertainment of an audience, but as something middle-class whites embarked upon as a full-time identity, or as a spiritual quest. I trace this new form of blackface from Norman Mailer’s 1957 essay "The White Negro" to John Howard Griffin’s Black Like Me (1960) to Grace Halsell’s best-selling Soul Sister (1969) to the Symbionese Liberation Army, whose white members appeared in blackface and adopted Swahili names." Laura Browder.<br /><br /> Surely the OZ-left is not trying to catch up with the US middle class of the 50's? Say it isn't so! I thought the cultural cringe had gone extinct.<br /><br />Perhaps Larissa B. during her Harvard years (while a member of the North American Indian Law Students Society-before her first job consulting with the South Slave Lake Metis (mixed race) Tribal Council in Canada's NWT- ran across Laura Browder from Virginia Commonwealth University and was impressed by her scholarly work on "Ethnic Imposters":<br /><br /> Under Cover: Ethnic Imposture<br />and the Construction of American Identities<br />http://www.has.vcu.edu/eng/symp/p_o.htm<br /><br />L.B. has said in interviews about her fiction that the "truth" can only be told in "stories", which echoes a long tradition in the US:<br /><br />In our living room, I told Elizabeth, "I think you shouldn’t publish that book! It isn’t true. It twists our family. It makes us what we are not."<br /><br />Elizabeth screamed, "I have to publish my book! It makes me what I want to be. It shows our family as I want people to see us."<br /><br />"Although my nerve was fading I said, "When I read your book, Mother, I forget who we are. I don’t like that. I want to remember myself, and our family."(186)<br /><br />"The past is another country; they do things differently there." Sorry.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-60242532795569726432011-09-30T13:41:15.018+10:002011-09-30T13:41:15.018+10:00Anonymous (above): If the policy was to "stea...Anonymous (above): If the policy was to "steal" only half-caste children, then Larissa's aboriginal genes represent 12.5%.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-51053979049604056282011-09-30T13:33:29.388+10:002011-09-30T13:33:29.388+10:00Just a question: Is Professor Behrendt in a tad of...Just a question: Is Professor Behrendt in a tad of trouble for stating that 'The taunts will never hurt her', but then taking legal action claiming that they did?<br /><br />Actually, Bolt seems to have had fewer mistakes with his account then Professor Behrendt had with hers. As Prof Bunyip has shown, her account bears little resemblance to the documentary history. Bolt only got the generation wrong - which (ironically) decreased her racial claim to 25% (assuming her grandmother was 100%).<br /><br />It is clear, even from her account, that her father was not brought up with cultural knowledge, and added that only after the event. Can hardly claim to have been 'raised black'.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-20847927217300449622011-09-30T13:09:26.785+10:002011-09-30T13:09:26.785+10:00What is it with leftists and their licence with th...What is it with leftists and their licence with the truth and their historical revisionism?<br />http://www.fmsfonline.org/fmsffaq.html#Registration<br />observaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-90739912799006850212011-09-30T12:46:12.552+10:002011-09-30T12:46:12.552+10:00It should be noted that I posted similar analyses ...It should be noted that I posted similar analyses of Paul Behrendt to the Marr article and various ABC/Drum articles. None were published. Apparently they prefer their fiction to any facts, and they censor to ensure their readers are left none the wiser.<br /><br />One post I responded to (and it never appeared of course) made the bold claim that all mixed blood aboriginals are the product of sexual exploitation and rape by white men. Apparently this claim is ok for The ABC and Fairfax censors, but a response that points out that this was not the case, and would likely offend each of the individuals named in the Bolt case was too much for them.<br /><br />Fairfax and the ABC are a disgrace, I can avoid the Fairfax press by not buying them, but I have no redress for the ABC taking my tax dollars to use for their political agenda. Needless to say, neither of the cespits of journalism will be subject to any scrutiny by the Labor/Green media Inquisition.harrynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-2834969683558302011-09-30T12:08:39.155+10:002011-09-30T12:08:39.155+10:00The Bobbi Sykes connection is somewhat ironic! To ...The Bobbi Sykes connection is somewhat ironic! To wit:<br />'Roberta Sykes was born in 1944 and grew up in Townsville, where she has powerful memories of the racism she experienced. Although not Indigenous, Sykes nonetheless strongly identified with the Aboriginal community as a black victim of racism.'<br />http://www.indigenousrights.net.au/person.asp?pID=1030<br /><br />I think the plaintiffs might live to regret the scrutiny they have brought down upon their heads.<br /><br />Let's ignore this urban elite and focus our attention (and resources) on those who live in poverty in the APY lands and elsewhere, with very poor life chances. Let them get royalties, jobs advancement without the latte sippers smear them as 'coconuts'.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-20383505052219224972011-09-30T12:01:06.144+10:002011-09-30T12:01:06.144+10:00Did Justice Bromberg even bother interrogate wheth...Did Justice Bromberg even bother interrogate whether Professor Behrendt had expressed any hurt by Bolt's article? It seems not:<br />http://www.smh.com.au/national/the-taunts-will-never-hurt-her-20100917-15gbr.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-30552579970638094242011-09-30T10:58:45.904+10:002011-09-30T10:58:45.904+10:00My God!My God!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com