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Fool wrote (edited )

Oh, it must be so hard on you.


It's common place here, sure it's out of place, but at keeps people aware of that the indigenous population of the area was wiped out so white settlers could have farms, and later a city.

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lettuceLeafer OP wrote

Nah, activism is actually just as bad as not doing activism.

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Fool wrote

I wouldn't even call it activism, mostly just public servants reading the mandatory script.

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lettuceLeafer OP wrote

I mean that's exactly the case why U find it annoying. It's an act of trying to look like you care while also doing nothing and by passive action reinforcing said oppression.

I just hate when people just don't be straight with how their actions hurt people. And if that's upsetting to you do something to materially help. But rather I see land acknowledgments as a way to make up for the harm caused while doing nothing to help said group your way of life hurts.

Tho overall it's mostly meaningless.

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AnarchoDoom wrote

Coming to a site to whine about impending "woke" land acknowledgements that may make you feel bad for being a colonialist land owner is, too, a form of activism, btw.

Activism: can't escape it, 'til you actually stop caring about the stuff.

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lettuceLeafer OP wrote

Its a surprise to me that my comments on raddle present me as someone who feels guilt about such things.

I'd be happy to explain in detail what I dislike land acknowledgments and we could have a discussion if interested.

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AnarchoDoom wrote

But you could have simply just started by explaining that, and this would have made for a much better thread, perhaps, instead of starting by bitching at "performative wokeness" (which btw, was totally liberal capitalism in regards to the question of land property, literally a performative wokeness asserted on the land... or explain HOW can property not be performative bullshit in the first place).

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lettuceLeafer OP wrote

Ehh, it's a lot more effective from my perspective to put out feels to find topics to discuss with people. Spending a bunch of time writing out my opinion on a topic just for everyone to agree is really boring and a waste of my time. So that's why I often make statements then talk with people who seek to discuss the topic later.

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AnarchoDoom wrote

Ever consider how people aren't very interested at maintaining a discussion with someone online, ONCE they realize they are being trolls? Hopeful you'll find people with whom that's "effective".

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AnarchoDoom wrote

Just willing to make this thing clear: are you, irl, a petty bourgeois? I can only think of upper middle-class privileged people as being so picky about terms like "bitching".

And yes, LettuceLeafer was very obviously bitching at some group of people in the title.

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metocin wrote

yeah I live in a very liberal place and I hear them all the time. sometimes its not cringe and comes from the right place but when it comes from a rep of any state institution it makes me die a little inside.

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existential1 wrote

I hear these daily as a result of work. Meetings have them. Performances have them. Its exhausting and I hate it.

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MHC wrote

Acknowledgment of country.

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