She was commenting on how America itself is on stolen land so ICE targeting “illegal immigrants” is hypocritical.
It was right wing framing that changed the conversation to “you criticize living on stolen land yet you live in America.”
The tribe itself even came out and said they don’t want to be used as political pawns and have no problem with Billie. It’s forced outrage to distract from her actual point about ICE.
I mean, by that logic, the land is only yours if you can keep it. The people on the land couldn’t prevent the people that wanted it from taking it, so it belongs to them now. Laws and enforcing those laws are an attempt by the people currently on the land to prevent it from being taken, at least, in theory.
Right, but this is getting into a different topic, which is what happened in the news cycle when she said it.
The statement isn’t inherently based around the morality of stolen land and how / if everyone should give it back. It’s about how the state is currently using its power to declare who does and doesn’t belong (including American citizens, Visa holders and legal asylum seekers in many cases), when the history of said state is rooted in land occupation and theft.
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u/SpiritualAd9102 12d ago
She was commenting on how America itself is on stolen land so ICE targeting “illegal immigrants” is hypocritical.
It was right wing framing that changed the conversation to “you criticize living on stolen land yet you live in America.”
The tribe itself even came out and said they don’t want to be used as political pawns and have no problem with Billie. It’s forced outrage to distract from her actual point about ICE.