The USA favorite activity, the genocide of indigenous peoples
I’m reading An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States and I’m struck with how basically identical US settlers and Israeli settlers are - it’s very clear they’re both part of the same joint imperial project when you look at the behavior of 1800s settlers.
It’s like Israelis are time travelers, it’s really incredible how similar they are in their language and behavior and actions.
Both are based in the english settler colonial system developed first in ireland then exported world wide
Half of the “anti Zionism is anti semitism” arguments basically boils down to “all these other nations got to do what we are doing and no one stopped them, why do you care now?”
Its true, settler-colonialism isn’t new and has been successful in the past. But how Zionists ignore 200 years of historical and political development is truely astounding, not to mention all of the ethical qualms that they somehow justified to themselves. I guess they think they can just force back the clock on this one genocide with the US hegemon’s support.
Chanting “Free Palestine” at an event dedicated to Native American suffering is one of the most disgusting things you can do
wonder how that rate that next to the genocide of Palestinians?
I saw this picture in the replies.
Land acknowledgements are a mocking endzone dance celebrating victors justice cmv
I think @MF_COOM@hexbear.net put it well here
Yeah it’s actually good to do land acknowledgements, and it’s good they’re doing one. You should do them too. I hate to break it to you but we’re not in a revolutionary phase right now, but a consciousness-raising phase.
Land acknowledgements aren’t something dreamed up by white liberals who want to expunge their guilt. They’re an indigenous tradition that indigenous radicals (at least where I live) practice when talking between themselves. In the context of asking colonizers to do them it’s never been considered enough to just do a land acknowledgement as if by doing so you’re purchasing the moral right to continue occupying. It’s a destabilizing statement that a) forces the person speaking to know a single gd thing about the indigenous people whose land you occupy and b) acknowledges out loud that the land was taken without permission, which believe it or not is where we’re at in terms of convincing settlers that there’s actually a problem.
crossposting our comrades comment here
wow he looks truly awful
