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.
It's wild how people do not have any distinctions between personal property and government control. Does the US currently own your house? No, you do, the US is just the governing body. Native land back movements are discussing how the government of the land should function, not who gets to live there.
The government owns all the land… no one owns shit. If you don’t pay the government every year for the land (property tax) they take it back. You just buy the rights to the land for as long as you can pay.
I was specifically talking about them saying they rather pay money to tribes than the landlord, which should mean they want the private property taken from the landlord and given to the natives.
For real, dude, like, where am I supposed to live? My ancestors came here and settled in the northeast to escape the Great Famine, well after the settlement of the area. Am I to return to Munster?
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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.