When I was a kid it was a big deal, then it went off for a while, then it became a big deal again and now some people boo it.
Is it the welcome to country stuff? I don't get it, I'm probably getting old and not up with these things.
W^nkers
Its like booing at a funeral.
Regardless of what one thinks of war, or current wars in particular, to do that when people are mourning their dead is a disgrace. Even more of a disgrace when one enjoys the privileges of our current society that are in part due to those dead folks.
If they're booing at only the Welcome to Country welllll I don't like the statement but they should shut up and debate the semantics of welcome to country some other place.
Anti woke one nation voters against welcome to country. Barnaby would have been proud of the boo'ers.
Well then what of the aborigines who don't like it - as its used completely out of context and white folks making a populist virtue-signalling thing out of it, devalues their culture rather than supports it? That's not an uncommon view amongst the indigenous.
But ANZAC day is not the place.
Select to expand quoteMark _australia said..
W^nkers
Its like booing at a funeral.
Regardless of what one thinks of war, or current wars in particular, to do that when people are mourning their dead is a disgrace. Even more of a disgrace when one enjoys the privileges of our current society that are in part due to those dead folks.
If they're booing at only the Welcome to Country welllll I don't like the statement but they should shut up and debate the semantics of welcome to country some other place.Select to expand quoteMark _australia said..
Well then what of the aborigines who don't like it - as its used completely out of context and white folks making a populist virtue-signalling thing out of it, devalues their culture rather than supports it? That's not an uncommon view amongst the indigenous.
But ANZAC day is not the place.
Bipolar response
The welcome to country ceremony maybe is a bit over used at some privately funded events and gatherings, but I would argue that it is appropriate and should be part of the Anzac day dawn ceremony.
If some people are booing that, I think it is very disappointing. and disrespectful to our first nation people.
Whoever is doing it, I fail to see how it would possibly help their cause and question their motives for attending the Anzac day dawn services.
I don't know what those people were booing, and they likely shouldn't have been booing, but there's good reason to have highly mixed feelings about Anzac Day. We're conditioned to unquestioningly support the "sacred" Anzacs, but you're supporting those who blindly killed for whatever country they happened to live in, right or wrong, because the politicians told them to. That's why humans have wars.
It gets confusing (and the bad guys play on this) because decent people rightly think that yes we should feel for those who rationally believed they were on the right side and risked their lives for others, but what about the rest of the Anzacs: racists, rednecks, haters, dumb kids who thought no further than "It'd be fun to shoot a "turban head"" It's saying people should be praised for "Just following orders" which is what the average person does in a war, thinking their country is right purely because it's THEIR country. You can't have a war if both countries are in the right ...
Select to expand quotewendell said..
I don't know what those people were booing, and they likely shouldn't have been booing, but there's good reason to have highly mixed feelings about Anzac Day. We're conditioned to unquestioningly support the "sacred" Anzacs, but you're supporting those who blindly killed for whatever country they happened to live in, right or wrong, because the politicians told them to. That's why humans have wars.
It gets confusing (and the bad guys play on this) because decent people rightly think that yes we should feel for those who rationally believed they were on the right side and risked their lives for others, but what about the rest of the Anzacs: racists, rednecks, haters, dumb kids who thought no further than "It'd be fun to shoot a "turban head"" It's saying people should be praised for "Just following orders" which is what the average person does in a war, thinking their country is right purely because it's THEIR country. You can't have a war if both countries are in the right ...
My daughter is an officer in the Navy, she read the acknowledgment to country at the service yesterday. My son is in the infantry as well and I have a another joining the Navy. None of them want to shoot people but I am sure they would all follow orders and put themselves in harms way to do their duty.
You call serving members and veterans average people at best and haters at worst that blindly kill, maybe you should read John 15:13. Greater love than this has no one, that someone lay down their life for another.
We dont celebrate the killing at Anzac Day we honour the sacrifice.
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They were booing at welcome to country. Not all heros wear capes
Really?
The guy who did it last year was Jacob Hersant, Neo-Nazi.
The folks who did it this year are associated with the "March For Australia" movement, which is linked to and was supported by Neo Nazi groups.
