I got as far as “Gatorade bottles labelled in Mandarin” in the summary to know that it’s shotty journalism lmao

You are correct except for calling the white colonizers “settlers”.

Settlers in this context typically means immigrants who came over after Australia became a British colony. Usually non-white but there are plenty of Scottish and Irish families who are settlers because of the whole British enslaving them part.

I think the term you’re looking for is covert racism.

I’m Canadian and yeah… Even IRL a lot of people refuse to admit it.

I’ve been forced to educate people about the Chinese Head Tax and the 2 very distinct Chinese Exclusion Acts and how that on top of Yellow Peril still affects Chinese disapora today in government regulations including immigration and social programs, which is super traumatic as a Hong Kong diaspora who is also trans, queer, female-bodied, and neurodivergent.

I’m not sure why you’re confused because the first sentence of the article literally says:

Australians have resoundingly rejected a proposal to recognise Aboriginal people in the country’s constitution and establish a body to advise parliament on Indigenous issues.

Which sums up why they were trying to make this happen, which also sounds like they don’t have an official group of Indigenous peoples advising the government on anything that is an Indigenous issue, which is super bad.

Also, from the article:

Opposition to the voice seized on this ambiguity, adopting a campaign slogan of “if you don’t know, vote no”.

I know the Western world still isn’t into it, but kids should be allowed to wear masks if they’re sick or trying to prevent illness. Like they do in Asian countries.

Especially by the point they’re in high school.

Not isolated at all. Black kids (especially girls) get targeted all the time. It’s usually ignored or doesn’t make the news.

Or the Japanese army during WWII.

Really? My Google Sheets has so many formulas and conditional formatting. There’s so much I can’t do in Excel that I can do in Sheets :/

Also, adding checkboxes in Excel is a pain lol. They made it so difficult.

Sure. Just abort. Because it’s not at all traumatizing for his wife to get an abortion… Abortions are so easy on the body.

Pretty sure 3 years is a long enough wait after the surgery lmao. He did get the all clear from his doctor and he hadn’t even met his wife at the time.

Pretty sure 3 years is a long enough wait after the surgery lmao. He did get the all clear from his doctor and he hadn’t even met his wife at the time.

He got his 3 years before he ever met his now wife so he did get the all clear from his doctor to not use barriers to prevent pregnancy.

Society has moved on to attacking Trans and non-binary people, gays included in this ignorant lot (obviously not all gays).

People gonna hate what they don’t understand or if something makes them uncomfortable.

Happens all the time IRL to me. I use both he and she pronouns and ignorant people always ask why bother just pick one. Well, I did, they’re my PERSONAL pronouns and I chose both these.

I’d still recommend a condom, not just for STIs but also because vasectomies are not 100%.

Just ask my brother who got one and his wife is now expecting in December.

I prefer Google Sheets over Excel but cannot tell you why.

Not even a he 🤣

And actually, my friends do fulfill 70% of my emotional needs and I’m pretty good at fulfilling my own needs as well. I have zero desire for a romantic relationship or connection at this point in my life.

Cute. I’m not the one who needs to date someone to be happy.

I hate that evolutionary part of me that cares about having sex/a mate so much that I actually allow myself to become depressed based on the goddamn preferences of one person.