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Men are weird. I don't understand why they go so ballistic when they're disobeyed.
Is this fucking scumbag pretending to be Aboriginal? Does he also identify as someone who can spell, with his “blak” nonsense? And how many women has he raped so far? Transbian = rapist is usually a safe bet.
“Blak” is a term commonly used by Aboriginal Australians who wish to take the power out of the word “black” that was originally used against them. They know how to spell, it’s an intentional linguistic change, similar to “womyn”.
Ah, thank you for that information.
Of course! Black just has a different connotation in Australia and I totally understand why non-Australians might not know that. :)
So is he trying to identify as "blak" as in a person of African ascent, or is "blak" a way to say aboriginal and therefore... Not appropriation if he's from a given native community ?
(Although on Twitter I'm sure he fully understands that that most people do not realize this and will assume he is appropriating blackness, so in any case it is a form of appropriation)
Several other commenters have explained it better than I, but many First Nations people in Australia refer to themselves as Bla(c)k, though if you're non-Indigenous you usually wouldn't use it. Here's a bit of an explainer about the different terminology used here: https://www.commonground.org.au/learn/aboriginal-or-indigenous
Most First Nations people I know or know of identify themselves by their community/country: Wurundjeri, Arrernte, Anangu, Yorta Yorta etc. Coleman claims to be Wirlomin-Noongar according to Wikipedia. I would expect that if he hadn't been accepted as such by community Elders, they would have spoken out about it.
Yea this is him!!! It’s colonization on steroids!!!!
He'll be applauded for his "feminine" bravery and commitment to BIPOC lives. It's insanity. Men truly get away with everything.
The article states he is an Aboriginal male so I assume his identifying as 'Blak' is not that much of an issue.
Hmm. I wonder.
"The great thing about being a Black lesbian is that everytime I punch, it's up."
Fucking hell, they are the most pathological colonisers I've seen.
I’ve only ever seen this whole “punch up vs. punch down” thing in trans discourse and let me just say, I hate it.
It can be a good rule of thumb for comedy so you don't come off like a raging asshole, but per usual, people don't know how to not beat a good idea to death. I think it's the same reason a lot of TIMs are "communists" because democratic socialism just isn't good enough for them. They're not very good at nuance.
I can't understand the delusion. No one outside of woke circles would ever see him or treat him as an actual black lesbian.
It basically reveals their true motivations: get to be violent and maintain a mantle of moral virtue.
Oh really? How many of these "TERFs" have rounded transwomen up and murdered them by the millions? How many of these TERFs have ever even threatened violence against transwomen?? You're comparing a group of women who refuse to be "inclusive" to one of the greatest large-scale atrocities ever committed??? Is this piece of shit going to get canceled like Gina or does his dick card give him a pass?
It's the heat, it has to be. Woman-face might not be a holy cow, but black-face is. And this guy thinks he can get away with appropriating race and sex? The only logical conclusuon: the Aussie heat melted his brain.
There was a TIM in Canada that made news a little while back for going trans-racial and styling himself as from India. It's fine for him to pretend he's a sex that he's not, apparently, but not to pretend he's an ethnicity he's not.
Piece of shit Canadian “Gwen” Benaway, who appropriated both indigenous ancestry and womanhood, took a high-profile literary prize from a deserving person. He was called out for appropriating indigenous ancestry but of course, none of this was covered in the MSM, and nobody gives a shit that he also is appropriating womanhood.
I keep waiting for him to face some sort of consequence. I get in Canada no one is going to care that he's appropriating womanhood but it does really make it clear how much current SJW dogma is just virtue signaling when this guy still has awards, and positions based on his false Indigenous identify. It's such BS.
Not that one, but rather one on the West Coast who took an (Asian) Indian name as part of his new identity. I can't remember his name, though.
A lot of TIMs lie about having a minority background. Mey Rude claims to be Latino, but he's just a white guy.
Probably a lot of people outside Australia don't realise that many Indigenous Australians don't have dark skin, especially those living in less remote areas. In Tasmania, for example, the majority of Indigenous people have fairer skin, which is as a result of attempted genocide. Black, or blak, has more of a community meaning than it is a reference to individual skin colour. This guy may well be an Aboriginal male. I should point out that you generally don't self define as Aboriginal in Australia, it is mainly to do with heritage and community acceptance, and depending where you are, sometimes just having the heritage without being part of a community is not enough to claim that you are Aboriginal. Those who try to self define are very loudly called out for it.
It’s not how light he is. I’ve seen a red headed kid with freckles who’s part aboriginal, and actually fully part of the community, speaks the language, etc.
They vary in looks, but none have an as narrow and bony face as this guy. And he’s already claiming to be a woman, so I’m really not buying this guy being mixed Aboriginal.
I’m not a huge fan of “kill all Nazis”, either. I think that maybe we just shouldn’t kill people even if they’re racist assholes. Oh, and this is coming from an actual Black lesbian.
The woke also define "Nazi" as anyone to the right of them, even when to the "right" just means not believing in gender feels or thinking teaching kids reading is more important than teaching them politics.
It also figures that many of the "kill all Nazis" activists also believe in prison abolition and defunding the police. So, putting criminals in prison: bad. Killing anyone to the right of Bernie Sanders: noble and good.
They don't just hate anyone to the right of Bernie Sanders, though. They also hate actual leftists who understand and apply class analysis.
“Nazi” is well on its way to becoming as meaningless as “transphobic” is.
I tend to roll my eyes when I hear it, which is bad because maybe one out of ten times they are in fact talking about someone who's a white supremacist or similar.
Well, there it is. There's his motivation.
Put it on a watch list, Australia.
He certainly didn't build those biceps from flossing.
He looks like a 1970’s hippie. Not a lesbian but a racist, yes.