Anti-white ABC film a grim sign of our intellectual decay

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Andrew Bolt: Anti-white ABC film a grim sign of our intellectual decay

Truth is now what activists say it is. Proof: the ABC will next year screen a two-part “history” by “Aboriginal writer” Bruce Pascoe.

Based on Pascoe’s prize-winning book Dark Emu, the film will make an extraordinary claim.

No, Aborigines weren’t primitive hunter-gatherers, but sophisticated farmers with an “agricultural industry” — tilled fields, big villages and huge overhead granaries. That is, until it was destroyed by wicked men as white as, er, Pascoe’s face.

This is the kind of anti-white story that the woke now loves, and so Pascoe was given the NSW Premier’s Prize for Book of the Year and another for best indigenous writer. The Australia Council gave him a lifetime achievement award.

He’s even been made a professor in the indigenous faculty of the University of Technology Sydney.

ABC HELPS 'ABORIGINAL HISTORIAN' BRUCE PASCOE REWRITE OUR PAST- Bruce Pascoe says he's Aboriginal. He also says Aborigines weren't hunter-gatherers but sophisticated farmers, sometimes living in big towns and storing grain in huge overhead silos. But Pascoe's claims are based on very shaky or false evidence, so why is the ABC presenting a series starring him and his "history"? My editorial from The Bolt Report. - C/o Andrew Bolt, Herald Sun, November 13, 2019

Watched the video. And it does kind of look like a bit of scrutiny probably should be placed on this Bruce Pascoe's sources, there should be some experts who would be better at it than us or Andrew Bolt, who is not a fair face for this sort of topic.

Kind of looks like hyperbolae to claim that the ABC is helping him rewrite history, the film seems to be being made by Blackfella Films, ABC is simply showing it, and I don't think ABC only show completely accurate films, nor would it be up to them to check if it is, rather than publicly funded channel to show Australian made media.

But it is not like this guy alone, or the Left, are the ones trying to rewrite history and use made up facts to spin the narrative they want.

I am convinced, based on decades of contemplation and casual research, that the Australian ABC has a strong leftwing political bias despite its legal charter to be impartial.
I have personally seen an unadulterated leftwing bias by some of the ABC media personnel.
It has been pointed out that there are no conservative commentators/journalists employed by the ABC which is a give-away, surely.

Bruce Pascoe is an Indigenous Australian writer, of mixed Cornish, Bunurong, Yuin, and Aboriginal Tasmanian (Palawa) heritage. He has also written under the names Murray Gray and Leopold Glass. He has worked as a teacher, farmer, a fisherman and an Aboriginal language researcher. His personal website was recently suspended for unknown reasons.

There is, however, another website related to his work: Dark Emu, Exposed!

Hmm. I don't get what the reason for such a claim would be... Is agriculture considered more highly developed than the incredible cultural heritage of finding your way through the Australian outback by navigation along songlyrics?

Based on what I have researched/seen so far, the information indicates any distortion of the truth is coming from Pascoe.
Manufactured "truth" to service a political narrative is not the actual Truth.

Andrew Bolt: Truth about Dark Emu doesn’t count in poison of identity politics

Finally! “Aboriginal author” Bruce Pascoe has replied to my questions about his identity and bizarre book, Dark Emu.

And ABC presenters also responded after I asked why their ABC will run a TV series starring Pascoe and his anti-white “history”.

But they’ve just made this farce worse.

Pascoe still won’t give a straight answer and the ABC presenters’ abuse proves they don’t care about facts. This is tribal.

As I wrote on Monday, the very white Pascoe has repeatedly claimed he’s Aboriginal. What’s more, his book claims Aborigines were not what historians have said — primitive hunter-gatherers — but sophisticated farmers in towns of up to 1000 people.

This startling reinvention has been celebrated by the cultural Left. Dark Emu won Book of the Year at the NSW Premier’s literary awards and a new children’s version of this bestseller is in many schools.

But wait. Are Pascoe’s claims actually true or a laughable invention?

On Monday I wrote that researchers on the dark-emu-exposed.com website have extensively fact-checked Pascoe and his book.

For a start, their records suggest Pascoe does not have one Aboriginal ancestor. Sure, they may have made a mistake, but Pascoe won’t answer my written questions.

But on Monday he did emerge on the ABC’s Statewide program in Victoria to claim that the researchers had failed to research “the entire family”.

And he repeated: “My family is Aboriginal. It goes back to our great-grandmothers.” He was not asked to name which ones.

In fact, the researchers’ records suggest Pascoe’s great-grandmothers are Sarah Matthews (born in England), a Mrs Smith (born and died in England), Elizabeth Jane Hall (parents born in England) and Rebecca Arnold (father born in England, mother’s parents born in England).

Unfortunately, the ABC also failed to ask Pascoe about my evidence that he’d misquoted explorers’ accounts to claim that Aborigines had big overhead grain stores and had harvested huge fields.

Let me give more examples of how wildly Pascoe misquotes his sources, making Aboriginal society look more advanced and white settlers more cruel.

Charles Sturt is one of our most famous explorers and Pascoe repeatedly cites his famous 1849 Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia.

Sturt writes there that his exhausted expedition was past Cooper Creek with “our horses” (plural) when it was “suddenly hailed by 3 or 400 natives”.

These Aborigines fed the explorers and said could sleep in “a large new hut”, which Sturt doesn’t describe.

Pascoe, particularly in his lectures and interviews, has embroidered all that. He’s claimed that Sturt’s men had in fact “eaten all their horses but one” (false) when they met “nearly 1000 people” (exaggerated), in a “town” (exaggerated) — a “little model community with timber and thatch houses” (invented).

He says Sturt was offered “the pick of the houses” (no longer just huts) “in a new estate” (as in housing estate).

In Dark Emu, Pascoe invents more details in this “town” that Sturt never described: “The smaller huts … were full of stored produce. Yards attached to these store houses were used as animal holding pens.”

Really? What animals would the Aborigines have kept in those “animal holding pens” in that parched land? Dingoes?

Sturt also wrote how surprised he was by “the smallness of the waterhole, on which these people depended”.

Pascoe vastly exaggerates that, too: “(The Aborigines) had dug a well which I think was 70 foot deep … That’s an engineering feat.”

Sturt describes women in this camp grinding seed “between two stones”, making a noise “like the working of a loom factory”.

Pascoe quotes that passage in Dark Emu, but elsewhere in the book refers to “Sturt’s description of the evening whirring of hundreds of mills grinding grain into flour”.

Two stones become “hundreds of mills” — and Pascoe has his Aboriginal “agricultural industry”.

Why haven’t professional historians called out Pascoe? And why did the ABC think it should promote his book as the history of this nation?

This is probably because ABC pays less than other studios, quite a lot of the people on the channel I have seen talk about how little money they get for being on the channel. So a lot of the time the mainstays there are going to be doing it partially out of goodwill. Other channels can have the personnel be, or need to be, influenced the rich owners, stakeholders, and advertisers, so ABC has all the people against that go to them. It is why you are more likely to get news stories that criticise companies that are destroying the environment while watching ABC, while those companies can try and slow down on that narrative.

ABC more likely to show things that are uncomfortable truths, from environmental to social issues, because they have no need to appease audiences for advertisement money, and all the incentive to try and bring awareness. Sure, ABC probably has a bit of a Leftwing bias, but it kind of feels that way when most of the other channels are owned by the rich. Just a fact that a publicly funded channel will skew Left. After all, it is the traditionally Right/Conservative view for lower taxes and less government services, over the Left/Progressive view.

Other than all that, I don't have a lot to say on Bruce Pascoe, despite the video by the conservative Andrew Bolt, I am not informed enough, or involved in the specific academia, to come to conclusions. I kind of honestly believe that his heritage should matter less as something to focus on for his character, as in honesty it does not matter as much to me for bloodlines, not sure it matters for expertise what your ancestors were.

Those are except for the provisions done for people's heritage which, I generally believe should be more about fixing economic problems and trying to help lost heritage brought from past actions, rather than what I think some conservative people seeing it as some sort of revenge and punishment. I would hope that the academics look at the facts, rather than what sounds convenient.

I won't claim to be "The Oracle of Truth", I am a dumb kid (29), and well aware that it is so easy to simply accept easy truths you were told in the past. Still learning tings like the Food Pyramid was totally BS that was influenced by the food industries. Still growing on issues that I felt very different about a decade ago. Like thoughts on the LGBT stuff, which I found kind of uncomfortable, now realising why I felt uncomfortable and I have to stand strongly against the conservative view. The intellectual decay I much more fear is the likes of wanting to downplay horrible things done by settlers because it might make me feel "less guilty".

Could you point out where Bolt is trying to downplay "horrible things done by settlers"?
I see him simply defending "Truth" and countering a seeming narrative to create a sense of collective guilt being internalised by those who do not simply have "English" ancestry, but by all Caucasians.

The "intellectual decay" refers to either the embracing of misinformation as a result of poor fact-checking or deliberately turning a blind-eye to erroneous facts so as to support a particular agenda.

You do realise one needs to be accurate in historic events?
One can't just make things up.
This is the issue in this thread.
You are making a separate point in regards to the sophistication of navigation.

Your mindset indicates a confrontational attitude.
Your implied premise seems to be that some people are interested in diminishing aboriginal society.
I see nothing which indicates this.
Could you highlight where you got that impression?

Based on what I have researched/seen so far, the information indicates any distortion of the truth is coming from Pascoe.
Manufactured "truth" to service a political narrative is not the actual Truth.

'Stunning allegations' made about historian Pascoe

Sky News host Andrew Bolt says Aboriginal representatives have made “stunning allegations” about historian Bruce Pascoe and his Indigenous ancestry.