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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
I live on stolen land, there isnt a way I get to morally wash off that original sin just because the land was stolen a while back and lots of other people were stealing things as well.
My obligation to the survivors of the people who my land was stolen from is to at least acknowledge the theft and try to enable them to enjoy the same fruits of that theft as I am enjoying
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Of course it makes a difference. The only difference between North America and Europe or elsewhere is that the conflict was relatively more recent. But every square foot of Europe would have a dozen or a hundred different parties that could dispute its ownership based on centuries of conflict. Indeed, how do we know who owned the land below any particular band before
them. Why should we crystalize it at the state it was when Europeans arrived. Maybe we should kick the current bands off their land and hand them over to the people who arrived over the Bering strait land bridge 10,000 years before them. How do you allocate all of that based on people who have parents of the stealers and the steal-ees?
Your idea I'm sure feels good to articulate but ultimately doesn't make sense.