#TruthTelling

Adontai Masonadontai
2026-02-03

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2026-01-26

Truth-telling and justice

* “I can understand how Corowa is now known as the place where we have 40 neo-Nazis march up and down our main street on a Saturday morning. Now we’re starting to remove flags. I can understand how someone can see it cascading.”
A regional NSW council voted to remove the Aboriginal flag to promote ‘unity’ – it did the opposite >>
theguardian.com/australia-news

* "The rise in voting support for One Nation, which mirrors the success of populist politicians in the United States and United Kingdom, provides further evidence of the rise of a more hardline, right-wing populism, which often celebrates rather than questions the history of European imperialism.”
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Opposition to moving Australia Day from January 26 is hardening: new research
theconversation.com/opposition

* "People don't understand that the current policies are still embedded in their colonial roots.” >>
abc.net.au/news/2026-01-25/tru

#PostReferendum #zeitgeist #SettlerSociety #FirstNationsPeoples #WhitePrivilege #WhiteSupremacy #EuropeanColonialism #FarRight #EthnoNationalism #dehumanisation #Empire #Australia #equality #governance #NSW #TruthTelling

Image: NSW North Coast tribal boundaries, Tindale's map 1974

Emberhartemberhartco
2026-01-22

SPEAKING SHAME 2/10
Shame derives its power from being unspeakable. The moment we give it language, it begins to wither. And still, we avoid the conversations that could set us free. 🔓


2025-12-17

Reading “Truth Telling” by Henry Reynolds. First Nations claims of unceded sovereignty have far more international law legitimacy than most Australians realise. #Truthtelling #alwayswasalwayswillbe

The book “Truth Telling” by historian Henry Reynolds lies on a table with a cappuccino and a muffin wrapper.
2025-12-17
Reading “Truth Telling” by Henry Reynolds. First Nations claims of unceded sovereignty have far more international law legitimacy than most Australians realise. #Truthtelling #alwayswasalwayswillbe
2025-09-27
2025-09-17

A ‘thoroughly white’ novel of national mythmaking: Peter Carey’s True History of the Kelly Gang at 25

"Published at the dawn of the new millennium, True History of the Kelly Gang could be read as reinstating a victimised and innocent white settler subjectivity that was well past its use-by date. It is a thoroughly white story. The almost complete absence of Indigenous characters – except as feared, shadowy figures on the periphery – and the boldness with which Carey’s Kelly claims stolen land as his own through recourse to Irish history and myth obfuscates the fact that the country Carey claims for Kelly was already deeply storied."
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theconversation.com/a-thorough
#SettlerMythscape #literature #books #EthnoNationalism #WhiteNationalism #SettlerSociety #heroism #PostHeroicSocieties #TruthTelling #justice #IndigenousPeoples #Australia

2025-09-15
WIST Quotations Has Moved!wist@my-place.social
2025-09-11

A quotation from Josh Billings

To lie about a man never hurts him, but to tell the truth about him sumtimes duz.
 
[To lie about a man never hurts him, but to tell the truth about him sometimes does.]

Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1875-10 (1875 ed.)

More info about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/78857/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #candor #defamation #libel #lie #lying #revelation #secret #slander #truth #truthtelling

Jessica D. M. 🇺🇦 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 🪃 🟧jessicaperthwa.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
2025-08-04

Families unite at site of massacre in Western Australia: ‘Something spoke through me’ | Frontier wars | The Guardian share.google/zA3qucKJ2XQ7.... #Auspol #AustralianHistory #TruthTelling

Families unite at site of mass...

Kalvin :mastodon:kaeseafour@mastodon.kupi.my
2025-08-01

The first sources of the history of the people and regions that have been colonized, exploited, invaded, and stolen are oral and verbal sources. These are the primary sources; oral information passed from person to person explains what information has survived, as colonial records often silence or override them.

#OralHistory #DecolonizeArchives #IndigenousKnowledge #ColonialSilence #TruthTelling #AncestralVoices #HistoryFromBelow #PeoplePoweredHistory #MemoryAsResistance #CulturalPreservation

WIST Quotations Has Moved!wist@my-place.social
2025-07-31

A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him in so far as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth — whether about the President or about any one else.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901-1909)
Essay (1918-05), “Lincoln and Free Speech,” Metropolitan Magazine, Vol. 47, No. 6

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/3…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #teddyroosevelt #theodoreroosevelt #country #criticism #government #loyalty #nationalinterest #patriotism #president #publicofficial #publicservice #truthtopower #truthtelling #truth

2025-07-26

"The history of terror and colonial massacre seared into the landscape."

"For there is no single crime to solve in The Leap. No killer to track down. Just a vast colonial and contemporary crime scene involving countless offences against race, gender and social function. The scene – the whole district, the town and its stranger-than-fiction name – is the crime. Everyone knows who the offenders are – now and back when."
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theguardian.com/books/2025/jul
#landscape #Australia #narratives #IndigenousPeoples #violence #dehumanisation #TruthTelling #books

Ancient Originsancientorigins
2025-07-20

History is a mirror for the present and a map for the future. But what happens when that mirror is distorted? In this article, Dr. Ioannis Syrigos explores how power manipulates history, why truth matters more than ever, and what we must do to preserve it.
members.ancient-origins.net/ar
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Lawrence Nault- Stone & SignalMountainHermit
2025-07-18

We lay blame and fault on the government, because we can't control the capitalists, until the capitalists become the government, and then it is too late.

A quote card with the image of a factory smokestack in the background and the quote "We lay blame and fault on the government, because we can't control the capitalists, until the capitalists become the government, and then it is too late. - Lawrence Nault"
Ancient Originsancientorigins
2025-07-07

History is a mirror for the present and a map for the future. But what happens when that mirror is distorted? In this article, Dr. Ioannis Syrigos explores how power manipulates history, why truth matters more than ever, and what we must do to preserve it.
members.ancient-origins.net/ar
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