By Selwyn Duke
“The Aborigines must be integrated into the new Australia; the old Australia is never coming back.” This statement is the antithesis of a referendum soon to be before the Australian people, the “Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice.” The question on the ballot later this year will be, “A Proposed Law: To alter the Constitution to recognize the First Peoples of Australia by establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice. Do you approve this proposed alteration?”
Regardless of whether the referendum passes, anyone dismissing the effort with the “integrated into the new Australia” comment would be immediately canceled. This won’t happen, though, for a simple reason: No one actually uttered that line. But here’s what was said, by Swedish politician and multiculturalist Mona Sahlin in 2001:
“The Swedes must be integrated into the new Sweden; the old Sweden is never coming back.”
Sahlin was talking about how newcomers — Muslim immigrants, in particular — were irrevocably changing Sweden and there wasn’t a darn thing “indigenous” Swedes could do about it. Suck it up, Sven!
Funny thing, though, she was never canceled; in fact, she went on to have a successful political career.
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