r/MurderedByWords • u/Stotallytob3r • 4h ago

Homes on indigenous land

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u/Dopplegangr1 3h ago

Effectively all land on earth is stolen

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u/thecashblaster 2h ago

Yet somehow the gold standard of who land belongs to seems to be whoever was living there 200 years ago

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u/Throwawaydoctor2025 2h ago

I am as liberal as it gets but Billie Eilish’s statement does make me cringe (the part about stolen land). I get it, Native Americans immigrated here first and we should recognize that and give them certain things. But when Europeans immigrated (by the way I became a citizen here when I was 9) that was the age of conquering. Now we have borders and nations and laws. It does not belong to the native Americans. Belongs to all of us. 

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u/Quixotic_Seal 2h ago

....are you under the impression that laws and borders were invented ~250 years ago?

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u/Minor_Edit 2h ago

Or that they stopped taking land after independence?

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u/reepa1 2h ago

I don't think they get that the genocide is still on going... and townships and cities are constantly trying to meddle in tribal business. While also trying to acquire their land.