Australians all let us rejoice. Repeat, ‘all’

I wonder if privileged Indigenous figures, such as Gold Coast Titan’s captain Ryan James, realize the extent to which their narcissistic insistence on victimhood is alienating mainstream Australians.  I have only goodwill for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and hope with all my heart that genuine inequality –  appalling child abuse, drug and alcohol abuse, less than Third World academic attainment and a grim list of other dysfunctions   – can all be overcome.

However, I find myself increasingly intolerant of “indigeneity” as a political movement and have to guard against a tendency to project my antipathy for these activists onto Aboriginal people in general.

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Let’s look at one of Ryan James’ claims, as quoted in The Australian:

Some of the lyrics [of the National Anthem] are references to ‘the free’ and you only have to look back to when my mum was born. She was born indigenous to this land and she wasn’t…