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).
This deracialising of whiteness, to the point that ‘ethnic’, ‘multicultural’, and ‘diverse’ literally all just means ‘everyone who isn’t white’, has been super beneficial for white ppl - all the privilege with none of the accountability, bam.
So after a generation of that, some white ppl now think that they can overturn centuries of racialisation and bestow this gift of racial invisibility, this ‘just australian-ness’, unto others, not realising that the benefits of invisibility only flow in one direction, by design.
See? white australian pineapples, just like I said… I saw those of you out there thinking ‘wtf is he talking about, pineapples?’ 
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