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“Always was, always will be Aboriginal land,” that’s the idiot’s litany endlessly parroted by the same marching morons who violently deny the Jews’ right to their indigenous homelands. Never mind the contradictions: the credentialled morons who spout this pious guff never stop to examine the obvious illogicality of their dearly held nostrums.
Consequently ‘land acknowledgements’ have become ubiquitous: on websites, in parks next to the vandalised war memorials, even from airline cabin crew as you land. Indigenous ancestors are venerated. Everyone else’s? They get the cultural equivalent of a wrecking ball.
This isn’t mere politeness or reconciliation. It’s ancestor annihilation. The same people who can spot an imaginary ‘genocide’ a Jew away are the most assiduous practitioners of their approved form of cultural genocide: the deliberate erasure of the people who built Australia.
Statues of Captain James Cook vandalised. Australia Day denounced as ‘Invasion Day’. Names scrubbed from institutions. The same pattern across the Anglosphere: Columbus Day replaced by Indigenous People’s Day, statues of abolitionists and Union soldiers torn down with equal venom in the US and war memorials juxtaposed with declarations that the land was never yours.
It accelerated in the 2020s, as the entire global left deranged themselves over a two-bit violent criminal who OD’d from gobbling his own stash in a panic. In June 2020, protesters in Madison tore down a statue of abolitionist Colonel Hans Christian Heg. Boston removed a Lincoln statue funded by freed slaves. The targeting quickly broadened beyond slave owners. The message is clear: the entire Western project is illegitimate, built on “stolen land”, which is completely false, but, then, truth was never more than an inconvenience to the left.
This is cultural revolution territory. In Mao’s China, the regime unleashed the Red Guards – mostly radicalised university students and youth – to smash the “Four Olds”: old ideas, old culture, old customs, old habits. What followed was not just mass murder and chaos but the wanton destruction of an estimated three-quarters of China’s priceless cultural heritage. Temples razed, artefacts smashed and classics burned. The young were weaponised against the past to remake society in the image of the present ideology.
Sound familiar? Our own Red Guards – pampered, university-indoctrinated activists – topple statues, rewrite school curricula as struggle sessions and demand public self-flagellation. ‘Welcome to Country’ ceremonies venerate one set of ancestors while erasing another. Non-indigenous Australians, mostly of British and Irish stock, are pressured to applaud their own cultural dispossession. The contrast is at its most grotesque at Anzac Day: gratitude to men who died for Australia at war memorials, paired with insistence the country was never truly theirs. The crowds, including veterans, were rightly incensed.
Anthropologists note that the human instinct to ancestor worship is near-universal. We honour the dead. We maintain connection. Most civilisations understand this. The elite of the Anglosphere is trying to erase it – and the backlash is building.
Last month, welcome-to-country rituals at Anzac Day dawn services in Melbourne, Sydney and Perth were met with booing and jeering from the crowd, including veterans. The RSL is reviewing whether such rituals should be mandatory. Pauline Hanson and One Nation have always refused, turning their backs in parliament. “They have had a gutful,” Hanson said. Good on them. Australians are tired of being told to apologise for existing in their own country.
The irony is brutal. The same elites who lecture about ‘decolonisation’ celebrate indigenous ancestor worship while demanding the rest of us disown ours. They do it from positions of safety, confident no one is actually coming for their harbour mansions. Israelis don’t offer land acknowledgements to Palestinians. Ukrainians don’t to Russians. Real contests of sovereignty don’t come with performative humility.
This isn’t harmless symbolism. It’s a sustained campaign of cultural delegitimisation. It tells young Australians – especially those of European descent – that their civilisation is a stain, their history a crime, their presence provisional. To throw their favourite slur back at them, it’s a cultural genocide:
The deliberate and systematic destruction of a culture, often without the consent of the affected group. This can include the destruction of cultural heritage, practices, and institutions, which can lead to the erosion of a group’s identity and way of life.
Will the West allow its Red Guards to go as far as Mao’s? In China, the destruction was catastrophic but eventually reined in. Here, the institutional capture runs deep: universities, media, corporations and even some churches. Yet the pushback is real. Hanson’s polling strength, booing at Anzac and growing refusal by conservative politicians to play along: these are healthy signs of a people refusing self-erasure.
The instinct to venerate forebears runs deeper than any ideology. The elites pushing this cultural suicide may soon discover just how deep.
