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No, you are not on Indigenous land

Noahpinion • 106119 implied HN points • 30 Nov 24
🇺🇸 U.S. Politics Land Rights
  1. Land ownership is complicated and often involves historical conquests, meaning most land has been taken and reclaimed many times throughout history.
  2. Assigning land ownership based on race or ethnic groups might create more conflict rather than solve past injustices. Instead, citizenship and belonging should be based on institutions, not ethnicity.
  3. Supporting Native American tribes today means respecting their modern institutions and allowing them autonomy in developing their land rather than just acknowledging past grievances.

No, You Are Not on Indigenous Land

Common Sense with Bari Weiss • 3042 implied HN points • 26 Nov 25
💾 History Land Rights
  1. Territory is made and enforced by institutions and force, not by racial identity, and most land has been taken and retaken through conquest.
  2. Restoring land to the most recent pre-state occupants wouldn’t return it to some original people, because earlier groups also displaced others in turn.
  3. Claiming perpetual ownership based on being the first human to occupy a place is philosophically weak and would unfairly consign many peoples to permanent dispossession.

Factory Settings

Anima Mundi • 164 implied HN points • 21 Jan 26
🎭️ Culture Land Rights
  1. Our attention is being systemically captured by surface-level distractions and entertainment. This extraction of time and focus prevents people from noticing and addressing deeper systemic harms.
  2. Key institutions like healthcare, governance, and the economy are often structured around incentives that serve profit, process, or power rather than genuine human flourishing, and colonial extraction still shapes who controls land and resources.
  3. Decolonization means reclaiming internal sovereignty by questioning inherited beliefs and deliberately choosing the values and systems you live by, not trying to return to an imagined pure origin.

Stolen Land? It’s All Stolen Land

Journal of Free Black Thought • 599 implied HN points • 25 Jul 25
🇺🇸 U.S. Politics Land Rights
  1. The idea of 'stolen land' is complicated because many lands have changed hands throughout history. This means that almost every nation today is built on land taken by force or conquest.
  2. If we follow the logic of who owns the land based on historical claims, it leads to confusion. For example, if we give land back to the first occupants, it would mean constantly redrawing borders and moving people around.
  3. Everyone has a history that includes both good and bad actions regarding land ownership. Instead of focusing on blame, we should aim to live together peacefully and recognize each country’s right to manage its own immigration laws.

Zionism for Aboriginal Australians

Kvetch • 84 implied HN points • 24 Sep 23
🌍 World Politics Land Rights
  1. The discourse around the Voice to Parliament for Aboriginal Australians is complex and promises different things to different people.
  2. Aboriginal leaders seek real sovereignty and self-government, not just symbolic recognition.
  3. There is a call for a more ambitious vision for Aboriginal nationalism, possibly leading to the creation of a separate Aboriginal state within Australia.
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