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Australians have resoundingly rejected a proposal to recognise Aboriginal people in its constitution and establish a body to advise parliament on Indigenous issues.

Saturday’s voice to parliament referendum failed, with the defeat clear shortly after polls closed.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Do you mean 'concern trolling' or 'sealioning'?

'Concern trolling' is falsely pretending to agree with an idea but raising concerns, in order to sew discontent. Something like, "I agree with giving them a Voice, but I'm concerned that ... ", an insincere astroturfing attempt.

'Sealioning' is when someone relentlessly stalks a person asking them for evidence or arguments, in order to 'just try and have a debate' when the other person doesn't want to. The term comes from from this comic, which describes it well. It's personal harassment pretending to be civil debate.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sealioning.

Though JAQing Off would probably be more accurate.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ah, that sucks to hear about.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Yes, it sucks that people were disingenuously asking questions to try and hide they were overt racists, and then cried when they called out for their behaviour.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"sealioning", in my experience, is also a way to attack someone asking you to back up your claims in any way.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

No.

But if it's "your experience", it certainly says something about you.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago