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I’ve noticed a trend during both Australia day and various equivalents in the USA of calling for renaming or re-dating holidays, reparations and the like. This seems to be mostly from people who are middle class or well off and of European descent. What do I see from those of Aboriginal, African or Native Americans descent? Calls for: high quality education that’s affordable and accessible to all high quality healthcare that’s affordable and accessible to all quality jobs that pay a living wage and are accessible to all to be treated equally as people, instead of based on the color of their skin to have a voice that is heard in the public sphere, proper representation To me, the summary of the two positions looks a lot like “we might feel better by making a one time payment for the choices of the past” vs “make the world a better and more equitable place so that everyone has a good life going forward”.