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Let me see if I got this. 1. Settlers colonize indigenous lands, drive indigenous people into small parcels and reservations and try to exterminate their cultu
by api 3y ago
Let me see if I got this.
1. Settlers colonize indigenous lands, drive indigenous people into small parcels and reservations and try to exterminate their culture.
2. Settlers decide to start refusing to build enough housing for themselves because they don’t want to alter the “character of the neighborhood” after… uhh… very much doing that.
3. Indigenous people build housing on their remaining bits of land for settlers, make tons of money off it.
K, yeah, I think I got it.
Maybe there’s a solution for California in here: decolonize!
Who were the indigenous people who inhabited the Bay Area? If they’re still around, push a big decolonizing movement to return some land to them. Place looks like Tokyo in 20 years.
“Okay, okay, we suck, you can have your ancestors land back. Just can you let me reserve a condo when they go on sale?”
Then watch all the Bay Area lefty 60s homeowners suddenly become white nationalists. Their ideology is probably downstream of their home equity.
- onlypassingthru 3y agoThe Bay Area indigenous land movement is finally starting to see some wins. Shellmound in Berkeley is a big win for the Ohlone tribe. [0] [0]https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/03/12/berkeley-shellmound-spengers-lot-sogorea-te-settlement https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/03/12/berkeley-shellmound-...
- api 3y agoShh. Make sure the tribe’s leadership knows to stay quiet for a while until they can pick up a few more parcels before unveiling their plans to exceed the height of the Burj Khalifa. I’m obviously half joking here. No intent to be insensitive. Even if they don’t build anything it’s better than a parking lot.
- onlypassingthru 3y agoWhen they rip up the asphalt and find no significant bones or artifacts in the marsh underneath, any plans for a cultural interpretive center are going to turn into a mural and some bronze sculptures in the middle of newly designed Ohlone Towers.
- renewiltord 3y agoDifferent structure though. These folk are preservationists and only decided to fight for the place once the parking lot was going to be replaced. Overall, it's not a bad play, though. 36% profit underperforms the loan over the period, but it's not nothing.
- skrbjc 3y agoSo developer wants to build on land they legally own, indigenous complain and get the city to block development and then to use tax-payer dollars to help them buy it, and then they will turn around and develop it themselves? Is this not just blatant extortion?
- tekla 3y agoThe downvoters are blind to this brilliance of solving the housing crisis while decolonizing. Is this not what leftists want?
- spxneo 3y agoCanadian indigenous settlements have been described by some as an "open air prison".
- temptemptemp111 3y ago[dead]