To directly quote, "Yet what should we think of the morality of following the principles behind land acknowledgements to their logical conclusion? “Decolonization” of the land of the U.S. would likely be an act of ethnic cleansing surpassing even the previous conquests — there are 330 million people here now, and almost none of them descend from Native Americans. An attempt to dispossess 330 million people would inevitably involve violence on a colossal scale."
I mean, I also find it hard to imagine a "good future" with major US institutions in their current form. I do think meaningful landback-as-manifesto is going to be pretty radical, and it's not bad to have radical movements in the mix. (My read is that the interviewee there is proposing that blood-quantum requirements are not where it's at, which moves things a bit away from ethnonationalism, and it's worth noting that my understanding is that in general blood quantum has been imposed on native american tribes by the US government, which has legally prevented some tribes from removing such requirements in the past.)
Definitely agreed that I don't really see a good path to resolving things in Palestine in a good way, it definitely feels like in a lot of ways the material conditions there at this point make reasonably-peaceful resolution like in South Africa or Ireland seem infeasible.
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To directly quote, "Yet what should we think of the morality of following the principles behind land acknowledgements to their logical conclusion? “Decolonization” of the land of the U.S. would likely be an act of ethnic cleansing surpassing even the previous conquests — there are 330 million people here now, and almost none of them descend from Native Americans. An attempt to dispossess 330 million people would inevitably involve violence on a colossal scale."
I mean, I also find it hard to imagine a "good future" with major US institutions in their current form. I do think meaningful landback-as-manifesto is going to be pretty radical, and it's not bad to have radical movements in the mix. (My read is that the interviewee there is proposing that blood-quantum requirements are not where it's at, which moves things a bit away from ethnonationalism, and it's worth noting that my understanding is that in general blood quantum has been imposed on native american tribes by the US government, which has legally prevented some tribes from removing such requirements in the past.)
Definitely agreed that I don't really see a good path to resolving things in Palestine in a good way, it definitely feels like in a lot of ways the material conditions there at this point make reasonably-peaceful resolution like in South Africa or Ireland seem infeasible.