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Damn did this movie teach me a lot


Australians and British are low life scum who invented Nazism

Aborigines can cross large distances pretty fast

Australia back in the 1860s already had WhatsApp

Americans can teach a thing or two about human rights to the British Empire, because they've always been so respectful to natives, blacks and other races

Dingos eat their dead

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England had slaves LOOOONG before there was an America. Who do you think we learned it from?

When it came to racism, the English were hard to beat.

When it came to raping the land of the Empire, look no further than India.

When it came to Human Rights, remember: Australia was originally a prison created to keep lowlife English scum, for such dangerous crimes as stealing food. It was called "transported for life."

Remember: we kicked them out because of all their injustices.

..Joe

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When it came to Human Rights, remember: Australia was originally a prison created to keep lowlife English scum, for such dangerous crimes as stealing food. It was called "transported for life."


I was under the impression that Transportation was usually a life sentence, but not necessarily?

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Correct. Usually, though, when they spent the money to send you there, you weren't coming back. Many of those are the people that formed the Australia we know today.

..Joe

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Thanks for that.

When I read about Transportation several years ago, I recall the biggest advantage to the English government was the only cost the gov would occur would be the actual transportation cost itself. Can I assume that the prisoners were then fed and clothed based on some sort of forced labor in Australia?

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Yes. Even after it had become uncommon, some parts of Australia requested them as there was a labor shortage.

They outnumbered free colonists for many years, until the gold rush.

..Joe

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Thanks Joe ~ from a history junkie...

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A lot of times the crimes never justified the sentence. Say a regional governor decided he needed a blacksmith, he would send word back home. They'd find a blacksmith who committed some minor infraction and off he went.

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The movie portrays particular individuals as bad guys. It does not suggest Australians and British are bad, or that they invented Nazism.

Aborigines actually can cross large distances pretty fast.

Don't know what that means.

The U.S. and U.K. before the mid-20th century were about equal in human rights violations. Since then they have been about equal in setting a positive example.

Dingoes are omnivorous scavengers.

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