Feb. 18, 2023 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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| Hey guys, Gregory Hood here with American Renaissance, and I've got a very simple question for you. | |
| Can you build a nation on nothing other than self-hatred? | |
| Recently, Australia celebrated Australia Day, which commemorates the arrival of the First Fleet under Captain Arthur Phillip, the arrival of the European settlers, the founding of Australia. | |
| It's the fundamental national holiday, the equivalent of America's Fourth of July, and is marked with the usual celebrations, parades, cookouts, inclusive activities everyone can participate in. | |
| Or at least he used to be able to, because it looks like Australia itself is now being cancelled. | |
| In fact, Australia Day is now being turned into a day of mourning. | |
| If you're American, this should sound familiar, because it's the same thing that happened to Columbus Day. | |
| Take Wollongong University, where Australia Day is being called Invasion Day, and employees are being given the choice whether to take the day off or work as a kind of protest. | |
| For our First Nations colleagues, this is clearly they don't want to recognize his celebration, said the Vice Chancellor. | |
| This year, the Australian Open did not even recognize Australia Day. | |
| No fireworks, no national anthem. | |
| But don't worry, it had a First Nations Day and a glam slam event for LGBT and whatever else they have these days. | |
| Others in sports are opposed to Australia Day. | |
| Jason Gillespie, a well-known cricket star who was part Aborigine, said he wants a day in which all Australians can celebrate and wants an alternative. | |
| The woman's cricket star Ashley Gardner said, quote, for those who don't have a good understanding of what that day means, it was the beginning of genocide, massacres, and dispossession. | |
| The website Cricket Australia says it acknowledges that for some people it is, quote, a day of mourning. | |
| Alright, so we're dealing with some woke sports stars, but what about the government? | |
| In Victoria, the second most populated state and home of the city of Melbourne, the Australia Day Parade has been cancelled for the last two years, ostensibly due to COVID-19, but this year the government admitted it was for explicitly political reasons. | |
| Even before COVID-19 and the so-called racial reckoning of 2020, there were fewer people coming to Australia Day events. | |
| Well, why was this happening? | |
| I'll quote a so-called First Nations leader who was opposed to the parade. | |
| The parade was a slap in the face and only rubbed salt in the wound, said First Peoples Assembly leader Marcus Stewart. | |
| A Victoria government spokesman said, We recognize that Australia Day represents a time of mourning and reflection for some Victorians, and is a challenging time for some First Peoples. | |
| The Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, says it's up to employers and employees whether they choose to stay home on Australia Day or keep working. | |
| What about corporate leaders? | |
| After all, leftists will tell you that big business is always on the side of reactionary nationalism and conservatism and racism. | |
| But the CEO of mobile phone provider Tesla Corp, Vicki Brady, said she's working out of respect for Indigenous Australians. | |
| To her, the holiday marks a turning point that saw lives lost, culture devalued, and connections between people and places destroyed. | |
| Kmart's moving away from selling merchandise celebrating the holiday. | |
| Woolworths told employees it's up to them whether they want to work or not. | |
| I think we can assume Bloomberg, of all things, represents the elite pro-business line. | |
| And it says, And who is this controversial even to? | |
| A recent poll found almost two-thirds of Australians want January 26th to stay as Australia Day. | |
| They don't want it to be called Invasion Day. | |
| However, there's trouble on the horizon. | |
| A majority of those under 35 do want it to be called Invasion Day, essentially a national festival of shame. | |
| Though the majority is on the side of the traditional holiday now, it declines a little bit each year. | |
| Look, guys, indoctrination works. | |
| If you tell young people that they should hate their history and be ashamed of who they are, that is what happens. | |
| But there's also something simpler going on. | |
| It's about power. | |
| I'm not the only one who notices that many of these so-called aborigines wouldn't draw a second glance at an American Renaissance conference. | |
| For example, here's Professor Mark McMillan. | |
| Now, I'm not saying he's not an aborigine. | |
| In fact, an Australian court said that saying so would be illegal, so I gotta be, you know, extra careful here. | |
| Here's the first known indigenous woman to graduate with an MBA from Sydney University. | |
| Here's another Aborigine, Dr. Amy Thunick. | |
| She's complaining about white journalists talking about the problems with Aborigines. | |
| And look, I have to agree with her. | |
| I'm pretty sick of hearing journalists talk about minorities too. | |
| And I'm not saying these people are fakers. | |
| But other white people claiming to be Aborigines is becoming a problem. | |
| The press talks about it all the time. | |
| Here we run into that great contradiction of modern race relations. | |
| We are told that race is just a social construct. | |
| If that's true, why shouldn't people with any aboriginal descent, or perhaps even no aboriginal descent and just a strong cultural connection, not get to say they're aborigines? | |
| In fact, if the abos are truly oppressed, wouldn't saying you're one be undertaking a heroic sacrifice? | |
| And there have been quite a few cases of white people faking aboriginal identity. | |
| As in America, being part of the so-called marginalized group gets you more power, better press, and apparently the right to dictate to the rest of the country what holidays they can and cannot celebrate. | |
| How did all this madness start? | |
| Well, either with good intentions, cynical politics, or just plain good old-fashioned stupidity. | |
| Here's Labor Prime Minister Paul Keating, a white man. | |
| That's him after he was first elected to Parliament. | |
| When he became Prime Minister, he arguably redefined the entire country when he said in 1992, Surely we can find just solutions to the problems which beset the first Australians, the people to whom the most injustice has been done. | |
| We took away the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. | |
| We brought the diseases, the alcohol. | |
| We committed the murders. | |
| We took the children from their mothers. | |
| We practiced discrimination and exclusion. | |
| It was our ignorance and our prejudice. | |
| Well, with a rhetoric like that, that paved the way for something that has now become traditional in Australia, the so-called acknowledgement of country, in which the speaker has to say which tribes land he's on, acknowledge that it's someone else's, not use the word aborigine, because that's apparently derogatory now, and essentially apologize for being here. | |
| What's really remarkable about this is that it's a flat-out endorsement of blood-and-soil ethnonationalism. | |
| Like I always say, guys, there are very few actual leftists. | |
| There are plenty of far-right ethno-nationalists in Western countries. | |
| They're just not white. | |
| For example, here's Australian Senator Lydia Thorpe being sworn into the Australian Parliament in 2010. | |
| Some people didn't like it when during the oath of allegiance to the Queen, she called the Queen a colonizer. | |
| The Senator was eventually required to recite the oath word by word, but she went on to say that the Australian flag didn't represent her and that Aborigines never ceded sovereignty. | |
| So assuming we take her heritage in good faith, and that's something, let's think about this. | |
| If she doesn't consider herself part of Australia, why should Australians have to listen to her, let alone do anything she says? | |
| What kind of country is Australia going to be? | |
| According to the government, Aborigines are about 3.2% of the population, and I'm guessing from some of these pictures that the definition is pretty loose. | |
| But some people want a treaty saying that these Aborigines are the true owners of the land. | |
| And these kinds of arguments are making an impact. | |
| For example, King Charles III will not replace his mother on Australian currency, at least not on the banknotes, because the powers that be want First Nations to be at the center of modern Australia. | |
| And we see the same thing happening around the world, especially in the Anglosphere. | |
| Land acknowledgments have long been part of Canadian political rhetoric, it's coming to America, and New Zealand is even toying it's changing its name to some word I can't even pronounce. | |
| Suddenly, the biological reality of race... | |
| Or the ethnic basis of nationhood becomes unquestionable. | |
| It's just being used against whites. | |
| Look, Australia Day is a day when people just want to grill, just like the Fourth of July. | |
| Most people want countries where peoples of different backgrounds live in peace, where we have a common heritage that transcends race, and we all celebrate being part of countries that are objectively some of the best places to live in the entire world. | |
| But we whites didn't start this. | |
| We are the ones being told that we must give up our homelands, our histories, our dignity, just to satisfy the egos of some cynical politicians and activists. | |
| And I get it. | |
| You may just want to grill, but they're not going to let you. | |
| And you are going to have to have the courage to say that it was a good thing that your white ancestors came to Australia, and New Zealand, and Canada, and America, and all these other places. | |
| And we built these amazing societies. | |
| If you aren't willing to say that, They're just going to keep pushing. | |
| It will never stop. | |
| And it will just get worse and worse. | |
| Thanks for listening, guys. | |
| I'm Gregory Hood with American Renaissance. | |
| We'll talk again real soon. | |
| But don't worry. |
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