That's stupid, the US was just as colonized as Canada... and frankly has done a worse job of working with it's first nations people.
I don't see how that is a leftist position.
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They dont use logic, only lazy appeals to emotion
I brought this up and he was somehow exempt from his own argument. Luckily he said i can just move to repent for my sins. Just got to find some unsettled land.
There’s probably some boat wreckage floating about out there that you could claim.
All land is settled. And in general you must evict or unalive inhabitants/users of space before you can own land…because if you don’t, they’ll tax, evict, or unalive you.
At elliotts school at the start of each day, at school events, they have to do land acknowledgement:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_acknowledgement
They say “before we begin we are proud to acknowledge that these are the native lands of
I honestly just find it weird and creepy
fake and gay. Virtue signalling. Establishment just love fucking with people. They just confusing everyone. Go all the way or do nothing at all, this halfway shit is annoying.
I strongly believe in reparations for colonialism and that not enough has been done, but i find land acknowledgments to be kind of weird and hollow.
even if youre right forcing it into schoolkids gotta be wrong
Guilt is the shitcoin of the victorious.
Durable transfer of land and sovereignty has always been a violent and bloody affair. I’m not sure there is any other way of resolving property disputes at this scale for the long term.