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Why are you so angry about this? Honest question. Did you read the quote? Elders perform a welcome to country. Non elders perform an acknowledgement. None of t

Why are you so angry about this? Honest question. Did you read the quote? Elders perform a welcome to country. Non elders perform an acknowledgement. None of this is based is faith or religion. It’s not posturing either, these things are just good manners in the cultures of the people who past present and future live on this land. I’m not even trying to make an argument out of these things, just highlighting that it is a tradition that has been practised for many TENS of THOUSANDS of years. I’m not guilting anyone to do anything. It’s not even posturing. It’s tradition for the people who walked this land long before me.

teakettle42 4y ago
> Why are you so angry about this? Honest question. It’s performative, hypocritical, and a form of social aggression used to assert your own standing/power, not to actually help a single person. “Acknowledgement” has not been practiced for “many TENS of THOUSANDS of years”. > I’m not guilting anyone to do anything. Of course you are. See all the “yikes” and “woah” you post, and weird capitalization of “TENS of THOUSANDS” above. You absolutely are attempting to leverage vapid social aggression to guilt people into following your silly religious dogma. > It’s not even posturing. Of course it is. It’s a meaningless, modern, invented platitude used by people like yourself to advertise how virtuous you believe you are. > It’s tradition for the people who walked this land long before me. Your useless “acknowledgement” of having stolen the land while refusing to give it back? That’s not some ancient tradition. Every group prior took land from others, claimed it at their own, and didn’t pretend to performative “guilt” over having done so.