lumpenproletariatintersectionality forever
__反いじめ戦隊The one colonists hate the most:
indigenous lives matter.
Tell them to give the land back and they lose their shit.
TiresiaI don’t understand what “give the land back” means. Would you mind explaining it?
There are a lot of poor, oppressed people who live on land their ancestors didn’t own. In the US, all Black people and most native Americans don’t live within 1000 km of where their ancestors lived 600 years ago. So when land is given back, what happens to the people that currently reside there? Do natives become landlords? Is there ethnic cleansing? Or is it only land where people don’t reside? Also, many native cultures didn’t even have land ownership, so how do you give land back without forcing them into a western mould?
It means that it’s up to the natives. It sucks for the descendants of settlers, but the alternative, that the descendants of the people it was stolen from keep being oppressed is worse. The natives get to say what happens on their land, and withholding stewardship until there is an alternative that the settlers agree to is perpetuating oppression. Land back means land back.
There’s a weird dissonance in these conversations where “justice” turns into “poetic justice” without the speaker realizing it. It’s an ironic reversal of positions that sounds good without any rational backing for why it would be good.
Would it be a satisfying narrative loop to result in indigenous people retaking what they historically had? Of course.
Does being a member of a marginalized group grant some specific virtue that makes you a just leader or caretaker? …Maybe tangentially? At the very least you might have more practical understanding of oppression.
Does being in a marginalized group that has a bloodline traced to an arbitrarily collection of humans who once lived in a place give you some inherent “connectedness” to (or “ownership” of) that place?..
No. That’s actually a pretty fucked up line of reasoning. That kind of argument is what propped up “Europe for Aryans” and “Blacks back to Africa”.
Your value in a community is in the bonds you have to it. Sure, some of those are family bonds, but a lifetime is far more than just that. We’re strengthened by our living connections to each other today, not by our unchosen connections to a string of dead people who can’t reciprocate.
None of us can go back in time and reverse genocides; how can those tragedies get special correction beyond curing the echoes of injustice that exist today?
In my opinion there are two simple facts:
If we were committed to live by those the rest becomes moot.