Virtue SignalingGuess who's not invited to dinner

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[–]julesburm1891 27 insightful - 8 fun27 insightful - 7 fun28 insightful - 8 fun -  (3 children)

I can say with confidence I would be relieved to not receive this invitation.

On the real, are they really just going to spell tribe names with random Greek letters and numbers and pretend that’s totally normal?

[–]Datachost 18 insightful - 1 fun18 insightful - 0 fun19 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The whole land acknowledgment thing has always felt like mocking to me. Because really if you're not taking steps to give that land back all you're saying is "Yes, we are on your land. And?"

If I took someone's phone, threw it in the ocean then said "Oh, I'm sooo sorry. Did I just throw your phone into the ocean?" but didn't then buy them a new phone, they'd be justified in feeling pissed off both at what I did and how I reacted to it.

[–]julesburm1891 18 insightful - 1 fun18 insightful - 0 fun19 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It’s silly and performative. I mean, if they want to give tribal lands back, there’s nothing stopping them from sighing their house or condo over to the appropriate tribe.

The whole thing irks me because it’s either pure virtue signaling or advocating for the destruction of every single North and South American country. The former is useless and the latter is crazy.

[–]bopomofodojo 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

On the real, are they really just going to spell tribe names with random Greek letters and numbers and pretend that’s totally normal?

To be completely fair - these are the original language transcriptions of their names using a phonetic spelling system (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squamish_language), as opposed to the Anglicized versions afterwards and that we are more familiar with. There's a lot of stupidity about the land acknowledgement thing, but this isn't one of them. A comparison would be calling Russia "Россия" instead of "Russia".