• Dessalines@lemmy.mlOP
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    1 day ago

    I call this the finders keepers rule of colonialism. The western supremacists think that as long as you

    • Kill a large enough percentage of the native population, and
    • Wait long enough

    Then the finders keepers rule kicks in, and you get to keep anything you stole. They even will yell “no ethnostates!!” at indegenous peoples they evicted and stole land from.

    The main point is that its not for anyone but indigenous peoples to determine what they want to do with their land.

    • for_some_delta@beehaw.org
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      17 hours ago

      I agree that colonizers have harmed indigenous people, but find the argument anyone has a birth right claim to property proposterous. As Proudhon proclaimed, “Property is theft!”. I expect any revolution toward anarchy to remove property from the owning class.

      I am less knowledgable than you about “land back”. How does “land back” differ from other ethno nationalist movements like “blood and soil”?