https://thinkingsovereignty.com/2021/01/07/uluru-statement-walkout-controlled-opposition/ Thinking Sovereignty Fri, 27 May 2022 15:32:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://thinkingsovereignty.com/2021/01/07/uluru-statement-walkout-controlled-opposition/#comment-57 Fri, 27 May 2022 15:32:12 +0000 https://decolonisethemind.wordpress.com/?p=763#comment-57 […] The marketing of the proposal to different groups is also very well thought-out. It is a bit like a slimy used-car sales tactics. It is not based on outright lies – that would legally be fraud and risk invalidating it. But there is plenty of creative use of language, exploitation of common misunderstandings and exploiting a general apathy for politics. Smoke and mirrors. There is a lot of appeal to emotion, especially to white-guilt. Aboriginal dissent to the proposal is being carefully neutralised by re-framing and re-direction. Often, dissent is redirected in a way where it still looks like dissent, but it actually supports the proposal. […]

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