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Originally Posted by BoLevi
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.
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I'm not arguing that Canada or the US should be returned, we frankly slaughtered way to many for that to be practical, but I am arguing we need to acknowledge the theft and try to provide the few survivors of our genocide with the same life the rest of us have been enjoying on the backs of their suffering, a decent education, not living with generational dysfunction and addiction issues we caused, that's our responsibility, to make some small amends