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On the one hand, I do know where you're coming from, on the other ...

  White European culture [..] including [..] Australia, Canada, South Africa and Zimbabwe before they turned to shit.

  Freedom of expression, not executing gays or hunting them for sport; the end of slavery,

Congrats, you've named places that in my lifetime have had effective slavery (stolen generations, imposed domestic servitude) and the freedom to hunt and execute gays (illegal, but common and commonly overlooked).

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_gang_murders (in an about Sydney since the 1970s)

I’m from Adelaide, so I’m well aware of the gay bashing and “suicides” that happened in Australia.

But as you put it: had

We’re not still doing those things, are we? And if they do happen we’re going we’re not turning a blind eye to them, are we?

Up thread you were metaphorically salivating over times past:

  White European culture, and including the USA, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, South Africa and Zimbabwe before they turned to shit.

and positively proud of

   I’m white, and I’m proud of what my ancestors have accomplished.

So, it's not about what we have come to _now_, it's the bald fact that you're seemingly onboard with times past:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_Generations

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coniston_massacre

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinjarra_massacre

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartheid

etc.

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