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minus-squareAwesomeLowlander@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-21 year agoI agree, we all need to move back to Africa. All 8 billion of us.
minus-squareAwesomeLowlander@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoUnless you’re asserting that none of your ancestors have ever claimed land at the expense of somebody else, you’re a colonist.
minus-squaremathemachristian@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoFor all its faults and crimes, and Lord knows there are many, the country I’m in isn’t oppressing a people native to this region.
minus-squareAwesomeLowlander@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoMy point being, go far enough back, and you WILL have found a people or tribe that got wiped out so another group could claim their territory. Where do you (arbitrarily) draw the line?
I agree, we all need to move back to Africa. All 8 billion of us.
migration =/= colonialism
Unless you’re asserting that none of your ancestors have ever claimed land at the expense of somebody else, you’re a colonist.
For all its faults and crimes, and Lord knows there are many, the country I’m in isn’t oppressing a people native to this region.
My point being, go far enough back, and you WILL have found a people or tribe that got wiped out so another group could claim their territory. Where do you (arbitrarily) draw the line?