Gahy humans. Welcome to the safe space for dangerous ideas and happy Australia Day.

Are we allowed to say that? Can I say happy Australia Day? It's Invasion Day. It sounds, it feels a bit

like, you know, on Remembrance Day or Anzac Day or one of those other days that commemorates

war. You don't say happy remembrance day.

Sad Remembrance Day in honor of Remembrance Day. If you're not Australian, you may not be

familiar with the brouhaha that exists around Australia Day. It is no small brouhaha.

It is a brouhaha, and I intend to keep saying the word brouhaha as many

times as it is humanly possible over the course of this episode. It is a brouhaha that has

effectively castrated Australia's ability to celebrate itself. I don't celebrate Australia Day. Most Australians I know don't celebrate Australia Day.

Most Australians I know don't celebrate Australia Day.

And if they do, it's with so many asterisks and caveats and sort of guilty nods to white privilege and genocide that it becomes more hassle than it's worth.

And I just want to reflect on how that's happened and where we might go from here

and what it tells us about the state of the conversation about things.

I do not fall on this subject the way that many of you might assume I do, or the way that many of my peers

who are critical of wokeism and social justice, identity politics, do. I am of the opinion

that we should change the date of Australia Day. Australia Day right now on the 26th of January is commemorated on the day on which the

First Fleet and Captain James Cook planted the British colonial flag on Australian soil.

That is an important fact.

That makes it very different from the 4th of July in the United States,

where what's being celebrated is the victory in a revolution. It makes it different from

the 14th of July in France, Bastille Day, where what is being celebrated is the liberation

of political prisoners. It makes it quite different from most countries' national days,

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