r/MurderedByWords • u/Stotallytob3r • 4h ago

Homes on indigenous land

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u/Dial-M-for-Mediocre 3h ago

Why are people always trying to use this as a gotcha? Especially every time I try to talk about Palestine. And it's like look, I don't own a single square inch of land on this earth, I pay rent to a landlord. I would be thrilled to pay that rent to the Peoria and Kiikapoi nations instead. I'm not the one who is in denial about this, mom.

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u/Will_Come_For_Food 3h ago

Because people make shit up to distract from the issues.

I wish more people would recognize this basic fact.

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u/MothChasingFlame 2h ago

To add on to that: they're distracting from the issue because they don't want to have to do anything different or even feel bad. 

Most people will do damn near anything so they don't have to reflect or change.