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It's called doubling down and it's not just happening in Germany.
The COALition in Australia has just compared the First Nations People who have lived in Australia for over 65,000 years with Aliens.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-26/liberal-sussan-ley-first-fleet-elon-musk-australia-day/104860982
It's not the first time they've shown their #racist colours either.
The "leader" of the COALition has refused to stand in front of a First Nations flag:
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/peter-dutton-faces-mounting-criticism-over-inflammatory-indigenous-flags-remark/9ve4afxtm
So has the "leader" of the COALition in Western Australia:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-17/wa-liberal-leader-libby-mettam-aboriginal-flag/104829360
The aboriginal people were the first of Homo Sapiens to leave Africa. They used the rudimentary technology of the era to sail to Australia. When they landed in Australia the ecosystem was even more more dangerous than it is now. They had to survive alongside giant reptiles and other megafauna for 17,000 years. That's in addition to everything else on that continent trying to kill you.
If anyone in Australia is a pioneering adventurer to be celebrated, it's these people. Yet the colonialist mind is so brain dead that they'll denigrate these people and their culture, while celebrating the arrival of a group of psychopathic plunderers who arrived at a land that was already settled by humans.
Yeah, well unfortunately for you, all of that supposed history happened before the Earth and universe were created. So... Lol jokes on you.
It might be misleading to say they were the first out of Africa. I think there was 100,000 years or so between homo sapiens leaving Africa and arriving in Australia.
Also I think they might have been able to walk due to lower sea levels at the time.
Finally it's pretty likely that homo sapiens (in this case aboriginals) hunted mega fauna to extinction.
I didn't say they immediately arrived in Australia, a place they couldn't possibly know existed. But it's not disputable that Aboriginals were in the first wave of humanity to leave Africa.
Yes, the sea levels were lower and they may have walked for some of their journey. But they did have to sail across the open ocean and did have to construct vessels that would allow them to do that. Let's not denigrate the technological achievements of these people by saying they just walked it.
What's really misleading is to just say they hunted the megafauna to extinction when they lived with them for 17,000 years. If you also compare that to the few hundred years it took for the American bison to almost be eradicated after Europeans arrived in North America, you'll see that these people were still great stewards of the land. Even if, like all Homo Sapiens, they spell disaster for other species around them.
Oh man.
First time round you said "The aboriginal people were the first of Homo Sapiens to leave Africa." I merely responded that might be misleading.
No one is disputing that Aboriginals, along with every other race, descended from the first wave of humanity to leave Africa. That's what the article you linked from the smithsonian says. Well done.
You're conflating being the first to become Isolated (in Australia and New Guinea) with being the first to leave Africa.
Aboriginals migrated to Australia via land bridges and short sea crossings over the course of many thousands of years. If you want to call a hunter in a dug out canoe a technological achievement then you're welcome to.
This claim is derived from the existence of a single fossil. As you're no doubt aware, this is a subject of hot debate. Wikipedia says: