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I'll have to remind the French and British settlers that died hundreds of years ago to knock it off the next time I see them.
If my grandpa stole your grandpa's house, and I live in that house while you're homeless (my dad also fucked over your dad a bunch), how clean are my hands? Are my hands clean if my sister is fucking you over still today (maybe I yell at her about it, but it still happens) and I still live in the house?
Your hands are clean until you tolerate injustice. Help your fellow humans.
Whoops, you've tolerated injustice.
My hands ain't clean but I'm trying ok?
Trying to cape for colonialism, lmao gottem
I don't know what this means
when deflection and playing victim is all you got, it isn't surprising
You'd agree it isn't "trying" to say:
(I see that wasn't your comment)
Yeah, I upvoted that comment. So what?
Stealing is not okay as soon as you give the stolen item to your kid. It should still be returned.
Yeah but is the kid to blame?
Answer: no, but the kid should recognize inequity and help correct it anyway.
Blame is irrelevant, the kid needs to give back the stolen items.
Meh, blame is still relevant, and the kid deserves to keep getting blamed when he not only fails to give back what was stolen and keeps insisting he's the rightful owner, but continues to rob and suppress the victims of the original theft, forcing them to pay exorbitant rent for access to the tiniest morsels of what was stolen from them.
I can't help but think your framing is a little off. It's more like someone stole the item, then gave it to their kids, who gave it to their kids, who gave it to their kids, who gave it to their kids, who sold it to someone else, who gave it to their kids. And then asking those kids to give up the item (in this case their property and home?).
So all you need to do to get away with theft is wait and move it around a bunch after the initial theft? And the rightful owner loses their right to it?
Like I feel like your perspective sounds nice and empathetic for about three seconds, then you realize you're advocating another ethnic cleansing in response to ethnic cleansing. Or not, I guess it's possible to think ethnic cleansing is good.
Returning land to the people it was stolen from isn't ethnic cleansing, and it's a typical settler response to accuse their victims of hypothetically doing something the colonizers are already guilty of.
So what you're saying is that it's okay to take back the food stolen by a homeless man desperate to feed his kids, right? And if they've already eaten, it's okay to take a scalpel to their stomach to retrieve it.
Hypocrisy isn't excusable.
Land stolen from indigenous people isn't done in desperation for starvatian, it's theft.
China give back Tibet, when?
Give it back to who? The slave owning Dalai Lama? Fuck off, it wasn't stolen, it was liberated.
Dig up their bones and send them to the British Museum
Sure, we didn't invade these countries but we maintain the colonial power structures and continue to benefit from colonisation as indigenous people continue to be dispossessed. It's easy and convenient to point your finger at the past and say thats where all the responsibility lies
I mean, depends on your definition of invasion. I have no problem calling British and French colonization of North America "invasion" but my main point is, Israel is actively doing it right now and all of the other countries listed did it hundreds of years ago where we can't reach them.