Why do Aussie leftists get triggered so hard by this book Veeky Forums?

Why do Aussie leftists get triggered so hard by this book Veeky Forums?

It's inaccurate and basically whitewashing history. We know that beyond official number white whalers were killing men and enslaving and raping women in droves. In fact the remaining Aboriginals of Tasmania are the results of white whalers enslaving women and forcing them to seal and muttonbird in harems at times. Slaughter and genocide did take place.

You haven't read the book, have you?

Boong alert

I have, have you because clearly my retort would make sense if you did

Because Australians are retarded.

I've never heard of it, but after reading a couple of reviews it seems like a filibuster.
This was particularly enlightening

>[Windschuttle] derides the suggestion that Tasmanian Aborigines might act with "humanity and compassion" because such notions were "literally unthinkable" to them [because their language had no words for these concepts]. This baseless claim not only displays the cultural relativism that Windschuttle otherwise scorns, it also goes against significant evidence that was available to him.

>Windschuttle is not consistent in this however. While denying the Tasmanians the basic concepts of humanity and the defence of their native land on linguistic grounds, he is perfectly happy to accuse them of being responsible for their own extinction by virtue of their willingness to 'prostitute their women', a concept that would surely be hard to frame in a society with no experience of money or commerce (leaving aside the well-documented and widespread incidence of rape).

If the historian writing a revisionist history can't be consistent with his claims, then why should I take his word over 170 years of scholarship that argues that the Tasmanian Aborigines were genocided and that their treatment was abhorrent even by the most extreme colonial standards. If there were still Tasmanian Aborigines around to raise some public outcry, this book would be treated in the same vein as Holocaust denier's.

Windschuttle is a huge cunt whose writing revolves around decrying the unsubstantiated claims of others while providing his own unsubstantiated claims. Honestly I was surprised to hear that Quadrant still existed the other week.

Good one. you guys gave a very vague admonishment accusing him of 'whitewashing' and being in the same vein as "holocaust deniers". Yous till haven't refuted anything he specifically said. Typical leftist obfuscation.

The burden of proof lies on historians like Windschuttle who make claims that go against the common historical consensus.