wtf is this about stacking rocks? I’ve lived with indigenous people for several decades and I haven’t heard any of them talk about stacking rocks for fun or as some sort of cultural spiritualism. They’re more into dancing and making music.

We already had the “vegans can’t tell indigenous peoples to not eat meat” struggle session. But I’ll give my take.

Indigenous peoples have certain privileges to do things because they were the victims of several centuries worth of genocide. These privileges include…

Eating meat

Hunting

Doing slash and burn agriculture

Land exploitation like oil drilling

Running a casino

It’s already decided that the descendants of white settler colonialists shouldn’t eat meat, that they shouldn’t be land owners, that institutions like gambling are bad. But to deny indigenous communities to decide for themselves their own destiny on things is stripping away the self agency indigenous people need returned to them.

Yes indigenous have special spiritual connections to the land, no western science is not the be all end all of knowledge, no white people/european do not possess the same spiritual connection to land or have cultures worth preserving.

It may sound hypocritical to say a white should legally not be allowed to eat meat but an indigenous person can no problem, but if you don’t get it, then you probably never will. This issue cannot be fully expressed in words.

Don’t forget the closely-related classic “it’s okay for me to eat meat because food deserts exist”