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Proximity in time and space add important context to the issue. There are still many places in the world where injustices are happening due to this kind of prob
by 49531 6y ago
Proximity in time and space add important context to the issue. There are still many places in the world where injustices are happening due to this kind of problem, saying that it has always been this way doesn't add anything to the conversation.
- rukittenme 6y ago> Proximity in time and space add important context to the issue. It really doesn't and saying otherwise doesn't add anything to the conversation (see what I did there). Do you really believe the Russian and German empires should reclaim their "rightful" territories in Europe? Do you believe Europe should reassert its domination over Africa because it had strong political control over it in recent history? What about the British Raj? What about Hong Kong? "Time and space" is a bullshit argument and you don't believe it yourself. How could you? "So and so" holding "such and such" lands at "this and that" time is the basis of 99% of wars throughout history. Its a stupid way to think. Its a stupid way to govern.
- buzzerbetrayed 6y ago> Proximity in time and space add important context to the issue So how long do non-native Americans have to wait for it to no longer be stolen land? What's the date? Because in order to believe that your line of thinking is logical, surely you at least have a vague answer to that question.
- jMyles 6y agoThe answer doesn't lie in the temporal dimension at all. We can stop stealing the land by choosing to live on it differently, and by respecting indigenous leadership with respect to use of and trust in the land. The idea that the land was stolen in discrete acts, decades or centuries ago, does not comport with what I am hearing from indigenous leadership. The land is still being stolen today, all the time.