• Neato@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    That doesn’t mean everyone living on stolen land gets a pass just because they weren’t the ones to steal it. They have an obligation to make it right.

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            1 year ago

            Just sayin’ but there are still several native tribes still existing across the Americas. We can talk to them.

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                I don’t think they were trying to downplay the severity. I think they were just pointing out in a snarky way that there were survivors, and thus, we can ask their descendants these questions.

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        1 year ago

        My town just voted to give some land back to native American descendants by buying it from the current owners.

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        Land shouldn’t be owned indefinitely and passed through families. It’s not right to have created a dynasty based on one guy in the 1800s claiming everything in sight and having his idiot descendents be wealthy simply based on the fact. They didn’t do anything except inherent land.

        Land that isn’t your primary home should have to be leased and not owned, that way it’s being used most effectively and not privatized for the sole benefit of the owner. It leads to land speculation and squatting of land that someone else would like to use.

        Additionally, natural resources should also belong to the people and companies should have to pay fair compensation for their extraction.

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          Yeah but that isn’t what everyone is saying. They are saying give it all back to the native Americans and what? Move back to Europe?

          Israel is more muddy people have been taking that land from eachother for millenia. Just because after the 2nd world war Israel was re-created after being stamped out prior to that. Who was the aggressor and the victim back then.

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        Both sides must come to an agreement that both agree to, without coercion by sword. All involved.