compuease;388502 wroteSure glad I ducked out of this one... Now back to the (more relevant) NA Indians..
So FU Trigs and KW Steve, if the Indians start lobbing rotten apples into your backyard as retribution for you "taking" or "expropriating" their land, are you going to roll over and give it back or fight back? Honest answers..
honestly, i don't know what i'd do. simply giving them my house and land isn't really helping their cause in the slightest, so no i wouldn't do that. i would go and talk to them and ask them if there is anything i can do to help them. i would (and do) feel terrible about this issue especially in my white male middle class standing - i'm one of the main parts of the problem.
i've had multiple native peoples as students in my classes over the years and some of them have been willing to discuss this issue with me and even they have no idea of a possible solution. they are literally lost between their old non-existent culture and this new demanding culture that they don't really want to be a part of. it's a situation that i can't even fathom.
i also can't even imagine being the government official or whatever who is in charge of dealing with this issue. i mean, what do you even say? "To all native peoples in north america, remember when we took your children from your homes and forced them into residential schools where they were beaten, tortured, and trained to the point where they forgot all their cultural traditions and even their native languages? Well, in retrospect maybe that was bad, so here's 5% off your taxes." it is literally a fucking joke.
btw, i just love when this is referred to as "expropriation". makes it sound so official and justified lol.