Quote Originally Posted by Euroholic View Post
Mate To understand history you must look at it through their eyes what it was like in those days. The laws of the day classed them as fauna and the land they were occupying free for the taking. Because a animal can not own land. So when they were finally educated enough the government granted them human status in the 1960s. So looking at it though the eyes of someone in 2016 it might seem barbaric but in the 1700-1900s it was no different then modern day land clearing. so moving forward everything before the upgrade to human status is fair game because the government sanctioned it and it was not illegal. Its a part of history was it right? Was it wrong? It happened nothing can change that fact. All you can do is move forward.

And no im not a white supremacist. I dislike more european whites then i do non european whites.
Point taken, but you're not contradicting anything I posted above. History is FACTS of the past. We agree on that. What you're arguing is how people PERCEIVE history in the past as opposed to now. Here are the facts (based on your original post since I've already stated that I don't know much about Australian history): Europeans came to the land of Australia, found indigenous occupants there, and took the land as their own by any means necessary even if it meant they had to exterminate a number of the indigenous occupants. I believe we can both agree on this, as they are facts.

The only thing you're arguing is how you classify the 'occupants' (and, yes, notice that I said 'occupants' instead of people since your argument is that people back then did not see them as people. This does not change the FACTS of what happened. I don't need to look at history through anyone's eyes but my own to know facts. Would you still have an argument of how your nephew was being taught in class if the textbook used the term 'occupants' rather than 'humans' or 'people'? These are just perceptions; the facts remain the same.