tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2379962210285738784.post5627230415121237610..comments2024-02-29T18:32:46.739+08:00Comments on Mutually Said: Poets Vegan Anarchist Pacifist: Northam and refugeesJohn Kinsellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14875953639683119817noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2379962210285738784.post-86768721414696190882010-11-08T14:34:03.300+08:002010-11-08T14:34:03.300+08:00I agree that the concentration camp should not exi...I agree that the concentration camp should not exist in the first place.<br /><br />However, I would like to add that I think it is interesting to see the centre right distancing themselves politically from the far right racists. Despite the fact many of the 'centre right' probably agree and would rather sweep the issue under the carpet. <br /><br />What the racists cannot see, through lack of education and empathy, perhaps because it is too paradoxical, is that these 'parasites' actually bring with them a tremendous amount of wealth - both economically and <br />culturally. They argue for xenophobia on unfounded economic grounds. In fact, I would be willing to bet that one 'refugee' would probably bring more wealth per capita to the area than each of the 'racists'.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2379962210285738784.post-2197171392298640822010-11-06T22:39:51.025+08:002010-11-06T22:39:51.025+08:00John (and Tracy), I entirely agree. And if they wa...John (and Tracy), I entirely agree. And if they wanna draw maps, maybe they ought to think of 60,000 plus years of Aboriginal cultural-linguistic groups spread out in the different clan groups over the White colonial borders that cut into the land in an attempt to instate a White originality to place. "In 1788 in Sydney Cove, the first boat people land" as Kev Carmody reminds us.<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6fem7-ucxg<br /><br />In our world wrought by the coloniality of power (Quijano) which tracks colonialism through modernity (two sides of the same coin - European modernity is not possible except by colonialism and U.S. hegemony by developmentalism and global capitalism), the idea of race, white superiority and progress through to the global age of capital transfers and elite mobility, to bodies and persons cut down by borders and ironic reassertions of "nation" and belonging... the real invader is he (usually the he) who continues to enact violence. The most vile violence. It must be eradicated and the decolonization of minds, hearts and the end of European-Northern History and its immense destruction and failure is nigh. End game to nation-states and governments, end game to their strategies of earth exploitation, legal labour systems of slavery and imprisonment of people of color, the tide will turn. We may not live to see it come to fruition, but the White-patriarchal-colonial-gender-heterosexual order is OVER.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com