Thanks for Not Yet

[l33tminion]

Went home with Julie and Erica for Thanksgiving. Quick trip this time, but was great to see the family. Melissa's family was in town, too.

This year I am thankful that of all the terrors at humanity's doorstep, some of them have been put off so far, and some could continue to.

Best reading from this weekend is Noah Smith's post No, You Are Not on Indigenous Land, a really cogent takedown of (including nominally-"decolonial") ethnonatialism.

The latest political news is Joe Biden's blanket pardon of his son, Hunter Biden. It is sad that we have come to this, and despicable that Biden is reneging on his promises. Unlike Charles Kushner, the father of Trump's son-in-law who he pardoned for witness tampering and then nominated for an ambassadorship, Hunter Biden surely wouldn't have been prosecuted but for his association with the President in question. But say, maybe Biden should just go ahead and pardon the January 6 criminals himself at this point. Surely they are more worthy: After all, not only their prosecutions but also their crimes would not have happened but for Trump.

Comments

[kihou]

I definitely feel like saying that the principles behind land acknowledgements are ethnonationalism feels like a strawman or at least not clearly substantiated. Feels like he's saying "we need to remember America's history of violent conquest, but saying that you live on stolen land is taking that too far".

Definitely feels weird to me that this guy seems to think that the (largely empty) symbolic gesture of land acknowledgments is based in ethnonationalism but not the Squamish Nation literally being immune to laws that apply to everyone else in Vancouver based on organization membership tied to ethnicity. *shrug*