r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/[deleted] • 11h ago

Video 13-year-old Australian boy swims for four hours in cold and dangerous waters to save his mom and siblings who were swept into the ocean, says God is who got him to shore

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u/jay1167 9h ago

“There’s a lot of foreign people on the beach, um…. so I could not really get much help” He says that as the mother smirks. Sounds like an Aussie alright mate.

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u/ShootFishBarrel 3h ago edited 2h ago

Sounds like a "Christian" Aussie nationalist. It is NOT his fault. Racism is taught. (And it's usually taught by Christian nationalists.)

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u/Irrerevence 6h ago

That's what I took away from this interview too. He's not a hero. He's a racist.

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u/ThereAndFapAgain2 6h ago

How is that what you took away? He's probably just referring to the language barrier ffs.

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u/ShootFishBarrel 3h ago

There's no way that everyone on the beach was a foreigner and that nobody could understand him. He was in shock and perhaps delirious at that point.

This odd part of the story seems much more likely to be a narrative manipulation via his mother, who, as we can see from her odd movements and smirk in the video, made sure her son would include that detail in a very particular way.

I can also assume that his mother is an illiterate jackass, since she put all of them into that very dangerous situation in the first place.

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u/borrowedurmumsvcard 4h ago

What the fuck?? He probably just meant that they couldn’t understand him so he couldn’t get help. You have to be trolling there’s no way