If the primary issue you want to address when doing anti-racism work is making sure white ppl feel good about themselves and don’t have to ever think about the R-word then you’re not doing anti-racism work.
Think about all the issues Indigenous ppl face in this country... Write a top ten list if you want.

How high up on your list is ‘white ppl feels’? Is it above or below high suicide rates? incarceration rates? Racist media coverage? Govt malfeasance? Institutional racism? Treaty?
How are we meant to be able to get any bloody work done if we need to drop tools and kiss the boo-boo of every white person who stubs their ego?
Too many white ppl wanting truth-telling but only if it’s the kind that doesn’t necessitate them making any changes after hearing it.

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
 

Keep Current with Luke Pearson

Luke Pearson Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @IndigenousX

3 Jan
They reckon that what we know today as racism begins in the 1400s when European sentiments of anti-blackness first start to develop and colonisation gets a papal sanction.
So, by the time Australia is invaded in the late 1700s, racism has had some 300+ years of developing and refining all the necessary moral, legal and religious methods and justifications for dispossession, mass murder, control and regulation, assimilation, segregation etc
By the time federation is ready to kick off in 1901 we’re at peak scientific racism fuelled, eugenics ridden, racial purity blood quotient obsessed, institutionalised racism across the ‘western’ world. This is the European status quo in which so-called Australia is founded.
Read 8 tweets
2 Jan
White ppl who say ‘why can’t we all just be Australian?’ are funny… I’m thinking they don’t realise that when white ppl stopped referring to themselves as ‘white Australian’ and became ‘just australian’, they kept the adjectives for the rest of us.
That’s how whiteness went from being super dominate, to the point ppl said shit like ‘that’s mighty white of you’ and bought white Australian brand sliced pineapples and shit, to becoming invisible. Default. The unspoken norm.
Making whiteness invisible (well, not invisible so much as made to appear omnipresent yet unnamed) didn’t eliminate racism it just made the mechanics of it harder to point to (comparatively speaking; it’s still pretty obvious but not quite as obvious as a ‘whites only’ sign).
Read 6 tweets
2 Jan
One of the greatest tricks white supremacy ever pulled was convincing white ppl that white supremacy is a fringe extremist belief and not the bedrock upon which Western civilisation is built.
That’s why a lot of white ppl can only imagine white supremacists as skinheads and Nazis and KKK members rather than the overwhelming majority of Australian PMs, present company included. Image
NB: same goes with pretending racism is an anomaly caused by ignorance rather than a ever-adapting strategically weaponised system specifically designed to provide the moral and legal justification for highly profitable, centuries long, still ongoing, crimes against humanity.
Read 5 tweets
2 Jan
Because white ppl are far more concerned with the fear of being called racist than they are about the damage racism causes and because ‘cultural’ training content is dominated by market forces, a lot of training has aimed more at alleviating white guilt than eliminating racism.
As Teju Cole said, “The White Savior Industrial Complex is not about justice. It is about having a big emotional experience that validates privilege.”
Also, speaking of market forces, there is a disconnect between the theory and the market when it comes to ‘cultural’ training. Some of the theory articulates a progression from cultural awareness to sensitivity to competence (for example).
Read 6 tweets
2 Jan
The Canning Stock Route is a track that runs from Halls Creek in the Kimberley region of Western Australia to Wiluna in the mid-west region. With a total distance of around 1,850 km it is the longest historic stock route in the world.
Alfred Canning surveyed the track at the beginning of the twentieth century, and by 1910 his party had successfully made 52 wells that would allow cattle to be walked for a day to reach the next watering point.
Canning's team of builders had constructed the wells with the forced help of Aboriginal people whose land the route traversed, including Martu and Wangkatjungka people. (japingkaaboriginalart.com/articles/the-c…)
Read 10 tweets
11 Nov 21
It's not a question of whether remission of T2 Diabetes can occur. The research has shown that constantly. The question is how many can achieve it. Unfortunately we'll never know the true amount until we establish a health system that can provide it.

A thread!

1/14
The research shows that remission is possible for between 20%-75% of those with T2D if weight loss is achieved early enough. But even at 20% that would be over 200,000 Aussies, never mind the amount that would reduce medications. So, what can we learn from the research?
2/14
Dambha-Miller et al (2019) completed a prospective cohort study (N=867) that followed patients for 5 years. They reported that 30% maintained remission over the 5yrs. Achieving >10% weight loss was associated with remission.
3/14

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
Read 14 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!


This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal

Or Donate anonymously using crypto!

Ethereum

0xfe58350B80634f60Fa6Dc149a72b4DFbc17D341E copy

Bitcoin

3ATGMxNzCUFzxpMCHL5sWSt4DVtS8UqXpi copy

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

:(