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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 days ago (17 children)

Land back means the ownership of the land is returned; it does not mean the expulsion of non-indigenous people

Not up to you or me, that's up to the indigenous tribes themselves to decide.

That doesn't really make sense if you're not first-gen; there is nowhere to go "back" to, if you were born there.

Less than half an hour later, the finders keepers rule I talked about elsewhere in this thread gets invoked.

Maybe you should get off your armchair and go to a protest.

Extremely redditor behavior

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Not just reddit but very lib brain behavior. They need material support for people on the rez not some cracker with a white savior complex holding a sign at a rally.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago (4 children)

So you're saying that we shouldn't have protests..?

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

By all means sure protest and use it to get people to do something more but telling Dessalines who literally created this platform and did more actual work than most of us ever had to get off their chair and go protest strikes me as lost liberal behavior.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I didn't say that to Dessalines.

[–] Samsuma@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

@Nakoichi@hexbear.net that was actually to me. But even then, assuming I'm not already engaging in real-life activism to downplay the point I was making isn't really a valid criticism of the point, but ig looking at other threads you seem to get that by now so it's w/e really.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

It came across wrong. I was inferring that you weren't doing real-life activism because I don't encounter people with the opinion I thought you had (that land back = ethnic cleansing) out on the streets in real life. But yeah, in another thread, it turns out I misunderstood you to begin with.

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