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Really ask yourself — if Denmark, the colonial state, who never asked Greenland whether it wanted to a colony in the first place, rejects an independence vote (
by bpodgursky 2y ago
Really ask yourself — if Denmark, the colonial state, who never asked Greenland whether it wanted to a colony in the first place, rejects an independence vote (and pro-US) by the 88% native Inuit population, are they the good guys?
I'm not saying Greenland would vote to join the US! But if they do, it would be extremely hard to view Denmark as the "good guys" for rejecting it. That's a real white-man's-burden perspective.
- close04 2y ago> who never asked Greenland whether it wanted to a colony in the first place If that was the criterion for legitimacy in such a claim for land then I have to ask, who asked the native Americans anything? Or Mexicans? This kind of "works for me but not for you" argument, similar to the one you threw above (US to "buy democracy" by paying people to vote for independence) and then dodged any follow-up, can only take you so far in a quality conversation.