Racist Folklore

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I was given a book on Australian Folklore as a gift. There were two references to Aborigines in it - one being about the "bunyip" legend ("primitive superstition"), and the other was a pioneer joke.

This was in the "Aussie humour" section. It told the story, in a very light-hearted manner, of three "settlers" who acquired a bottle of liquor, but only two cups. They solved their dilemma by picking up a "Blackfellow's skull" off the ground and drinking from that. That was the punchline.

So how many skulls must have littered the landscape? How much acceptance of genocidal atrocities must there have been to enable one of these skulls to be used as a prop in a joke? How much acceptance must there still be if this can be published in the humour section of a book that was written in 1988?

Australia's pioneers make Hannibal Lecter look like a nice guy. And the culture's continual eulogising and mythologising about these "heroes" is a sick and psychopathic basis for a psychotic society.

Read more about this in the article Aboriginal Critique Wolf Creek.