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r/neoliberal gets triggered cuz indigenous people use academic language to describe their oppression (www.reddit.com)

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Libs totally aren't fascists btw

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[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

Kind of interesting how “turtle island” became the defacto name for North America among some indigenous peoples and activists. Only a few tribes (out of literally 1,000s), the Lenape and Iroquois of the eastern woodlands on North America referred to it roughly as such with translations from the 16th and 17th centuries it’s difficult to know exactly what the context of this story was but it’s become so popular in some circles. If you had a Time Machine and were transported back to pre contact Pacific Northwest, nobody would know about Turtle Island. It’s literally putting indigenous peoples into a monolith.

I am unfamiliar with this topic, can someone explain to me what this person got wrong?

[-] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago

I don't see how indigenous movements using a name that was originally used by only few peoples puts the whole of indigenous peoples in a monolith.

[-] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago

They're also acting like indigenous people have to treat their culture as undead. Existing, but not changing. The Navajo may have not used the term 'Turtle Island' before colonization, but it doesn't mean Navajo people post-colonisation can't adopt the word as part of a greater pan-indigenous movement of solidarity against the horrors of colonisation.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Undeath is an ideal of neoliberalism, they want everyone to be a mindless zombie or a soulless automaton because that's the only way their ideology works

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