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Luke Pearson

@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.

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Luke Pearson

@IndigenousX

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).

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Luke Pearson

@IndigenousX

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.

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.

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Luke Pearson

@IndigenousX

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).

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Luke Pearson

@IndigenousX

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…)

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Luke Pearson

@IndigenousX

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.

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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?
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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.
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

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