Dogwatcher wrote:Footy Chick wrote: Australia Day is what it is, I don't care when it is but i do object to it being changed just because people want to change history.
Never ignore history - it's the only way we can become better as a country.
I'm trying to understand this sentiment.
The proponents of changing the date wish to do so, because of
history, not because they're trying to change history.
This is definitely not ignoring history, it's acknowledging.
moving the date is acknowledging what, exactly? because this country constantly feels the need to apologise for things done generations and generations ago?.
There will always be aspects of any countries' history that no-one is proud of but people need to accept that that's the way it happened and ensure such atrocities don't happen again in the future. FFS people, this was 230 years ago. In 2017,whilst it's still far from perfect, it's definitely not like it was.
Of course we're all sorry that thousands of indigenous people were killed unnecessarily -but it happened and changing the date isn't going to change this, so why do it. That's just my logic, which as we all know sometimes isn't logical..
Next we'll be changing the date of rememberence day or Anzac Day because it offends our German and Japanese population
Sounds stupid doesn't it, but where does it end?