Extermination or Assimilation- the settler "progressive’s" solution to the "Aboriginal Problem"

I have seen it over and over. Most Australians, whether they say it out loud or keep it buried deep, want us gone. Some want outright extermination. Others want us absorbed, watered down, turned into something that no longer threatens them, assimilated. But the aim is the same: erasure. Because our continued existence tears at the fragile lie of their so-called nationhood, their manufactured identity, and their illegitimate occupation of this land.

This is why they never show up en masse to stand with us. They had no problem rallying against racist apartheid and domination overseas. The unions marched against South Africa. The so-called socialists and ‘progressives’ shouted slogans for Palestine and anti-apartheid movements abroad. But here? When it comes to the apartheid system in their own colony, they either vanish, or worse yet many actively uphold it.

Too many unions cut deals that trample our sovereignty, aid land theft, sell out our people, or defend the prison staff who murder us. Too many 'leftists' and 'progressives' go out of their way to silence us, to undermine Black leadership, to call us ‘divisive’ or accuse us of ‘lateral violence’ when we name the collaborators, the grifters, and the comprador class who betray our struggle.

They smear us as ‘purists’, ‘separatists’, or ‘right-adjacent’ when we refuse to bow to their settler frameworks. They push back when we demand our sovereignty, control over our lands and resources, and true self-determination. Hell, they even push back on something as simple as calls to remove hanging points from cells so that our people, who have the worst suicide and incarceration rates in the world, can't hang themselves in a prison cell. And every time they do this, they reveal the same colonial chauvinism that built this occupation in the first place.

Even among those who tell themselves they are ‘good allies’, the vast majority do nothing. Complacency is not neutral because inaction only ever aids the oppressor. In the face of ongoing colonial violence, silence is complicity. Inaction is consent. This is how they enable the colony to grind on, year after year and generation after generation, by either actively helping it, or by doing nothing to stop it.