Opinion Commentary & Media VIII

[Gumble Frankieton]

You’d think the greater concern is that there’s a massive ****ing possum roaming around. Are there more?

I’m thinking that we leave LDU, Sheezel, Wardlaw, McKercher and O’Sullivan at home. Just in case.

Possumzilla is the movie that we didn’t know that we needed.

 

[Passmore]

Possumzilla is the movie that we didn’t know that we needed.

Only one man can save us.

 

[Lomas]

Just checking, our game in Bunbury is a day game, yeah?

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At least we have a mascot for the future 3rd WA team.

 

[DrZaius]

The critics of our historical figures would have no chance of survival in a frontier society.

LOL I'm sure you would flourish ya hero .

Just watch out for the "violent savages", though that should be a piece of cake for someone who has so steadfastly held the line against the horrors of a bit of big bad social progressivism.

 

[Black Diamond]

LOL I'm sure you would flourish ya hero .

Just watch out for the "violent savages", though that should be a piece of cake for someone who has so steadfastly held the line against the horrors of a bit of big bad social progressivism.

I am not holding them to modern standards and accept that things were different for good and bad. You have completely missed the point.

 

[Samsquanch]

To be fair that's a massive possum.

Euphemism?

 

[giantroo]

Anyone got the Cliff's Notes on what Arden said or did that is problematic?

The Age has unearthed an 1843 essay in which Arden called for Indigenous children to be taken from their parents, sent to school in the cities, and then put to work under “moral and sober masters”.

He linked the Indigenous population to cannibalism, referred to what he described as their “barbarity of ideas and actions” and said they had “no arts” beyond building a simple shelter in a storm.
“The savage of Australia makes, probably, the lowest link in the connection of the human races; he is at once the most pitiable object of legislative charity, and the most difficult subject for the labours of the missionary and the civilizer,” Arden wrote.


He called on the government to use a method of “severe controul” [sic] against Aboriginal people, rather than one of “injurious leniency for their preservation and improvement”.
The essay, called Civilization of Aborigines, is available on Trove, the National Library of Australia’s digitised historical database.


In Sydney in 1843, he wrote the essay for the second and final issue of his publication Arden’s Sydney Magazine of Politics and General Literature.

A year earlier, a similar pamphlet he had written was reported on in the Port Phillip Gazette, which said Arden had written that “the blacks are further from morality and civilisation, and nearer to destruction, from the anger they have themselves excited through their repeated aggressions”.


It said the scheme of retaining different tribes in reserves would fail unless coercion was used. The report again spoke of “systematic separation of the children from their parents” being the best course.

 

[krakouers]

Not sure that they were setting the bar that high for street naming honours back in the 19th century.

Arden, George (1820-1854) | Melbourne Streets

Looking forward to the day when they name a street that I threw up on

To be fair that's a massive possum.

Is it a WA thing you don’t get them this big?

 

[krakouers]

Euphemism?

I don’t think Dame Edna would approve… or maybe she would?

 

[chubbspeterson]

Looking forward to the day when they name a street that I threw up on

Is it a WA thing you don’t get them this big?
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[ferball]

I didn't even know Arden was a person.

Arden ... are you a person?

 

[ferball]

It is different.

And the conclusion to all of this is to just abandon the country.

Maybe knock all our cities down too.

They were all founded and built by people who committed unpalatable acts today. And built on prime indigenous land.

Give it all back, and if you’re white you need to carry the shame of your ancestors’ legacy.

How about you just pay a fair price for it.

 

[ferball]

Sounds like he lived a full and adventurous life. Good for him.

Lets be honest, he sounds like a useless campaigner whose death made society a little bit better.

 

[Lomas]

The removal of racist campaigners' names from public landmarks is always going to be a difficult case to prosecute when we literally elect racist campaigners in the here and now.
Especially when people refuse to draw a distinction between collective expressions of public sorrow and their own personal sorrow.
It is all about me me me, after all

It is baffling. For people who call others ‘snowflakes’ they melt quickly themselves.

 

[Lomas]

I am not holding them to modern standards and accept that things were different for good and bad. You have completely missed the point.

Maybe have a look at standards from the times. They were not as clear cut as you assume.

 

[ferball]

Goddamn annoying ladies... all of ya! You ain't men.. now, I fought fifty injuns... you lot whine if a bear comes in your yard. Hell, bear comes in my yard... I eat 'em! I ate an injun once... once I ate a priest as well... said I was heathen so I showed him how much heathen I was. Grilled the old bastard right where the stockyards are now!

 

[gerry101101]

All the hand wringing about renaming Arden Station…

Just stick a G at the start of it and a few pot plants out the front.

Problem solved at no expense, and we all move on.

 

[Lomas]

All the hand wringing about renaming Arden Station…

Just stick a G at the start of it and a few pot plants out the front.

Problem solved at no expense, and we all move on.

So you are a supporter of the old ‘garden state’ number plates on cars? Disappointing.

 

[gerry101101]

So you are a supporter of the old ‘garden state’ number plates on cars? Disappointing.

Hey - they adopted that as the slogan on the number plates in 1977. Only good things happened in that year.

 

[Arden]

Arden Harsh imo

 

[Gasometer]

Simple solution is to name the station William Cooper.

There done.

 

[South of the Yarra]

How about you just pay a fair price for it.

Hope you are travelling well brother

 

[The Talent Scout]

At least we have a mascot for the future 3rd WA team.

"Hello Possums".....

 

[hilly]

Just rename it Aegis Park, 'problem' solved.

 

[Hazey1977]

Hey - they adopted that as the slogan on the number plates in 1977. Only good things happened in that year.

I 1000% agree!

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