It’s Stolen GenerationS, as in plural, as in it happened over a long period of time across the country to many people of many generations and also had the ability to affect taken kids when they had kids, can we please just remember that?
note to self: When teaching Australian History, remember there was/is more than one Stolen Generation(s) and get a proper Indigenous history education. :/ I’m sure there’s something I can do at uni. We’ve got the Indigenous department here ffs, I gotta get on this.
Eh, I like to think it’s easy to forget because the official history people or government or whatever like to pretend they weren’t that bad you guise. Or something?
Or Australian laziness, like why bother with that pesky S sound on the end. Even my family does it, which must confuse people when those people then get corrected to the tune of “it’s generations”.
yeah official history says there’s only one blurgh. And well, krudd said sorry so it’s done and dusted right loloolol
I want to punch myself in the face for typing that. I keep having to explain to the people in my fucking ethics class that racism isn’t over just because krudd said sorry.
Can I just say, as a high school History teacher, that no matter what Krudd did, in schools it is THOROUGHLY taught as the Stolen GenerationS. It’s a very detailed and compulsory unit of work.
I know having the unit in there and actually getting kids to listen to it are two separate things, but a while back there was a lot of debate about whether we should even have that much. There’s an awesome book by Stuart McIntyre called “The History Wars” that details the then Australian Government (under Howard)’s attempt to stop it from being taught that way at all.
It’s ridiculous, how they think not acknowledging the despicable things that have happened in our past somehow make them better.
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