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August 20, 2008
Germaine Greer on Australia's Ignoble Savages
Posted by Dave Blount at August 20, 2008 9:09 AM
The liberal elite's Germaine Greer hurls down judgment upon the Australia she's left behind, blaming it for the barbaric behavior of Aborigines. Andrew Bolt reports:
Greer's thesis this time is that Aboriginal men are gripped by a rage caused by the humiliation of 200 years of white settlement.
"Aboriginal rage, it is not an excessive reaction to friction but the inevitable consequence of a series of devastating blows inflicted on a victim who is utterly powerless to resist," Greer wrote from London.
This, she claims, is the rage that helps explain the appalling violence in many Aboriginal communities — much of it inflicted on women and children.
If Greer stopped there, it would be bad enough. But in defending her notion that Aboriginal men are in a hopeless and permanent rage over something done to ancestors centuries ago, she digs even deeper:
"What I am saying is that they can't get over it, and it's inhuman to ask them to get over it … It's outrageous that you back off and say, 'Why can't they take responsibility?' "
But it seems British settlers weren't the first to make Aborigines angry:
Greer might like to believe Aborigines then lived in a Garden of Eden, among milk and kisses, but the skulls do not lie.
What skulls? The 1409 prehistoric ones from around Australia that were examined by paleopathology expert Stephen Webb.
Webb found the commonest skull injury was the kind that comes from being smashed on the head by another person, and that women were far more likely than men to have been hit, even though men did the war fighting.
For instance, women were more than twice as likely to have had two depressed fractures of their skulls, suggesting they were also more likely to have been used as punching bags.
Women along the east coast in particular were also much more likely to have the "parrying fractures" you get on your arms when trying to stop a right-handed person from hitting you.
What rage was gripping the men back then? Rage at having been evicted from Indonesia?
Thanks not to civilization but to a failure to assimilate into it, Aboriginal culture continues to be violently dysfunctional:
Anthropologist Professor Peter Sutton, who has lived in Aboriginal communities and worked on many land claims, says remnants of this violent, war-like culture exist still.
In his powerful essay, The Politics of Suffering, he describes what is known in some communities as "cruelling" — teaching children to attack people who teasingly hurt or don't feed them.
"Infants who fall over things like chairs may also be encouraged to attack the offending object in a valued and approved display of physical revenge."
No doubt this too is Whitey's fault, and only the "inhumane" would expect Aborigines to stop behaving like psychotic savages. It would be much more enlightened to piously hate ourselves as we watch them wallow in self-imposed misery.
Germaine Greer spewing moonbattery.
On a tip from Reuben C.
