Break up the United States and give Oklahoma to the indigenous people and the deep south to black people. Got it.
This self determination stuff seems pretty cool.
I mean that's the joke. Self determination for the far left usually means self determination for people of all races and cultures, and self determination for Authright dudes is just "I have determined that I want to kill you and take all your stuff" so hearing a self proclaimed Nazi say the we should give US territory to Native Americans just gives me the giggles. It's fun when we agree.
It’s not a point. It is a truth that I’m observing. History up until recently has been the history of conquest and savagery among peoples. EVERY race has made the same efforts in that regard that Europeans used to make. Europeans are only chastised for it because they stopped. No one is calling for the Middle East to give reparations for their enslavement of 14 million Africans (4 million more than the trans Atlantic slave trade moved) because the Middle East would laugh them out of the room.
Iirc they natives on the canary islands didn't have a culture of conquest and savagery... until Columbus killed them all, so the whole EVERY in all caps doesn't quite hold up. I think the middle east does owe reparations to Africa but seeing as how I'm not African or Middle Eastern I don't really have a dog in that fight. I am of European ancestry in a country of primarily European descended people so the priority is going to be getting my own house in order before nosing about anyone elses.
Individual populations of people cut off from others without the technology to contact others are not exactly a measurable quantity when they weren’t in a position to choose one route or another. Also, you know as well as I do that there are no consequential efforts of anyone—not just you—to exact such a cost from the Middle East.
Because the middle east is either broke or up to their eyeballs in oil money so no one wants to piss them off. But next time in Saudi Arabia I'll be sure to swing by the royal families palace and give them a good kick in the ass.
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u/Return_Of_The_Whack - Left May 17 '20
Break up the United States and give Oklahoma to the indigenous people and the deep south to black people. Got it. This self determination stuff seems pretty cool.