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I figured out the problem with land acknowledgments (hexbear.net)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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They’re fucking passive. They should directly implicate the US. Instead of “We are on unceded land of the Salish people” we should say “The US government stole this land from the Salish people and genocided their tribe”

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is a good point.

I think there are probably a lot of things wrong with them. By example, I know of groups that use land acknowledgements and are also Zionist, which should say a few things about how land acknowledgements are understood (performative) and what impact they really have (a spirit of virtue signaling and whitewashing). Basically... these are people that would happily give land acknowledgments for a (hypothetical) future ethnically cleansed Palestine but will actively promote the ethnic cleansing when it's right in front of them.

The only good ones I've seen throw some very serious Land Back claims in there along with other demands.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

There is an organic food farm around here that lets local leftist groups use it for training. I went there once and the owner woman was all land acknowledgement this land acknowledgement that, I'm just taking care of this land for the local indigenous tribe. Then I go on her instagram and it is stuffed full of zionist shit lmao. These things are somehow totally compatible.

If I had to guess they're probably in that sect viewing zionism as a wildly successful indigenous land-back movement for Jewish people (as though this pasty white woman were indigenous to the Levant or israel's land claims have any historicity at all) and so tell themselves they have solidarity with indigenous people on occupied Turtle Island as a "displaced" person.