You know you’ve reached a saturation-point of Wokery when even the intersectional voodoo dolls start pulling the pins. Senator Pauline Hanson’s furious reaction to the fatuous “Acknowledgment of Country” at the opening of the most recent Senate might have set heads wagging and brows furrowing on the left, but she was not without her supporters amongst Aboriginal Australians.
Indigenous Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price defended Hanson’s reaction to the vacuous tokenism.
“We’ve just been absolutely saturated with it,” Price said. “I’ve had my fill of being symbolically recognised, like, I’ve had enough of it. It’s really nothing to improve the lives of marginalised people.”
Yes, but it makes city-based white wokesters feel good. That’s all that matters.
Consequently, we’re endlessly bombarded with Acknowledgment of Country at everything from parent-teacher meetings, Zoom calls, and regional plane flights. Even low-brow tv shows.
Indigenous leaders have slammed reality shows for using the Acknowledgment of Country, labelling the gesture ‘condescending’ to Aboriginal people.
As Jacinta Price said, while the Acknowledgement might once have been a nice gesture at particularly important occasions of state, it’s now become nothing more than empty tokenism.
Wurundjeri elder Ian Hunter told The Daily Telegraph on Monday that the use of the acknowledgement on The Masked Singer and The Block was ‘totally unnecessary’.
‘It should only be used where appropriate such as a citizenship ceremony,’ Mr Hunter told the publication.
‘When too many people use it very lightly it devalues our ceremonial programs – it’s condescending,’ he added.
One of the most ludicrous abuses of Acknowledgment of Country I’d previously encountered was at a wedding in one of Melbourne’s hipster suburbs, to an audience of solidly lily-white Anglo-Australians.
“Hold our skinny almond-milk lattes,” say the lefty prats.
Mr Hunter’s comments come after Osher Günsberg introduced Sunday night’s premiere of The Masked Singer with an acknowledgment.
‘We welcome you tonight from Gadigal land, a place of beauty and abundance, where the sandstone meets the sea,’ Günsberg said.
‘We pay our respects to the traditional custodians of this country, and elders past, present and emerging, and extend our respects to any to First Nations, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people joining us tonight.’
And the audience yawned and scratched their bums. Who benefitted from this asinine tokenism?
But even that display of bien pensant dullardness isn’t quite the bottom of the brainless barrel.
Channel Nine’s The Block also aired an Acknowledgment of Country prior to Sunday’s premiere.
‘The Block and the City of Melbourne respectfully acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woi, Wurrung and Bunurong Boon Wurrung peoples as the traditional custodians of the land on which this production has taken place, and pay our respects to elders past, present and emerging. Always was, always will be, Kulin Nation land,’ it read.
This, on a show dedicated to real estate porn. Which, if they really believed their woke nonsense, would have the show’s makers handing over the titular block to the local Aboriginal co-operative.
After all, if they truly believed that it “always will be” Aboriginal land, then, by their own admission, they’re in possession of stolen goods. Imagine acknowledging that a looted WWII-era painting had been stolen — and then refusing to give it back. You’d be rightly branded a hypocrite.
Just like the cretins who witter “always will be”, while they live on what they claim to be “stolen” land.
The Block’s cast and crew are understood to have also undergone Indigenous cultural training in a bid to respect the land where the show’s latest renovations take place.
Daily Mail
Which, I’ve no doubt, they were charged a pretty penny for, by some spurious “Uncle” or “Aunty” who’d recently discovered a distant, part-aboriginal ancestor.