University Causes Outrage by Saying Britain 'Invaded' Australia

[alpine]

A row has erupted in Australia after a leading university published guidelines advising teachers to tell students that Britain "invaded" rather than "settled" the island, in a controversy which reveals the acrimonious division in Australian society over the country's colonial history.

University Causes Outrage by Saying Britain 'Invaded' Australia | VICE News


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[Tommy Tainant]

I think that the truth is slightly more nuanced than that but essentially that is what happened.
Why should people get worked up over it ?

 

[cnm]

Yeah, I thought that idea was not controversial.

Oh, it's the rightard talking heads protesting. Never mind, in a few decades they'll be dragged kicking and screaming into the twentieth century.

 

[alpine]

But; if Britain "invaded" Australia,
did Britain also "invaded" America?

 

[Tommy Tainant]

But; if Britain "invaded" Australia,
did Britain also "invaded" America?

Possibly.
You do know that it was actually the Welsh that discovered America ?
However we assimilated with the locals and our cultures intertwined.
What you would expect from a civilised and cultured people.
Totally unlike those English serial killers who turned up to ethnic cleanse a few centuries later.

The discovery of America - by the welsh prince Madog in the 12th century

 

[cnm]

But; if Britain "invaded" Australia,
did Britain also "invaded" America?

Of course. You think they were invited to take land and kill Indians?