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[–]OuroborosTheory 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

more to the point, they got rid of the Land o' Lakes Girl and some statues of Bartolome de Las Casas, so now there's no problems for Natives at all, ever--right?

now of course they can say those are just token gestures (and morbid jokes about how they kept the land but removed the Indian): but there's only so many times you can say "everything's worse than it ever was," and even (anonymously, in delicate terms) sympathetic people start asking whether the sophomore with the bullhorn has a good grasp of whether xir actions is actually doing literally anything for the Cause besides padding a resume for when they run the Twitter for Lockheed's cradle-targeting missile division

so ultimately they have to admit that their demand was completely inconsequential, that the Movement turned into nothing more than some broken public art, a "center for studies" that's being chased by the auditors, some smashed Target stores, and one segregationist geezer was elected narrowly over another segregationist geezer--just like the last three, five times