Australians Celebrate Australia Day As Debate Continues Over Changing The Date
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There's one thing that really gives me the pip: entitled white guys (and women) jumping up and down because their public holiday celebrating good ancestral fortune is threatened by a growing majority who are a bit more compassionate, a bit less afraid of modernity and who appreciate that inclusiveness doesn't really seem the appropriate word for a celebration of one mob's compulsory acquisition of another's land.
Paradoxically, confiscation of land and lifestyle isn't even the worst bit of die-hard 26th of January types, it's that even after nearly 250 years some people still think it's a great thing to celebrate, right in the face of the mob they pinched everything from.