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Imagine going to the desert for a rave, in an apartheid state, mere miles from an open air concentration camp and not wondering if you are the baddies. (hexbear.net)
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[–] 93 points 3 years ago (9 children)

Libs are getting the perfect opportunity to see whether they would've been the people supporting the native Americans in their struggle or the people who colonized them.

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  • [–] 85 points 3 years ago

    Liberals love to support indigenous resistance in the abstract but the second shit gets real it’s all about the fucking nuance and complexity and how dare they actually do anything.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 years ago

    They've had this opportunity for a while now. They'll support them when it's convenient against non-white people. Kurds, indigenous groups in China, Assyrians, Amazon natives, various Latin American indigenous people, etc. Have them go against a majority white population and they either downplay their struggle or immediately support the colonizer. Sami people, Palestinians, Basque people, Irish, etc.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    Where there any white people who opposed the genocide of Native Americans while i was actively happening at all? I know there were white abolitionists re: slavery but I've never heard of any white folks at the time talking about how what we were doing to the natives was bad?

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago

    There were plenty of publications, including one from Ben Franklin, that discussed the horrific things being done and how it was overboard. Most of them still held the idea that "civilizing" them had to happen, but didn't necessarily agree with the brutality of how it was being carried out.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    the genocide of Native Americans while i was actively happening

    It's still actively hapoening

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Yeah of course that was bad wording I just didnt know how else to say it like. "Back when we were doing literal wars about it" is what I meant.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    'When the first settlers were moving west across turtle island'? Idk

    Wounded Knee 2 was only 50 years ago

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    Also the Zapatista uprising was 30 years ago. And land defense actions that are met with violence from settler state security forces have been continuous across turtle island for at least the last decade (probably longer that's just what I'm aware of).

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