The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread

[Lods]

Your cultural heritage doesn’t give you insight into the colonial treatment of Indigenous Australians, Melanesians, Polynesians, Native Americans, South Asians, etc.

Unless your ancestors were Irish, many of whom were dispossessed of their land by the English, murdered in great numbers, treated as less than human, left to starve during times of famine, hung and imprisoned for trivial crimes or loaded on boats and transported to the other side of the world often never to see friends and family again.

Sadly, it is probably true that once settled in the new land some of the abused became themselves abusers.

It is a complex situation.