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Fine, but then you have to answer the question "what does that justify?"

Abolition of the Colonial government and establishment of a new more diverse and inclusive BIPOC-led anarcho-socialist collective?

It's incapable of conveying anything if the civilization is lost. Maybe the mound builders had an incredible understanding of the land, maybe they didn't, but we can't say they documented it, at least not in any way that's transferable to the future or discoverable by a foreign culture.

Maybe I'm moving the goal posts and I'm not trying to do that, so I'll leave the immediate topic there.

It also plays nicely with tiling WMs; you can replace the default with i3 or Awesome or whatever and enjoy mate-settingsd and having a nice GTK3 panel that looks nice, but also tiling windows.

> Which then begs the question: why are you upset that we're criticizing ourselves?

I'm not, I'm annoyed with yet another half-Woke 'net commentariat pretending that pointing out the American/Colonialist positionality of discourse in an American fluff piece is insight, when it's just half baked rhetorical whining about someone writing from their own lived experience and positionality. The author of the article, in short, is being mocked for using the language of his culture because the prevailing ideology of the moment proclaims American perspectives to be unilaterally oppressive.

The implied argument is that the Colonial positionality is the most oppressive discourse and therefore the least valid, so using language like "discovers" is argued to continue to marginalize Native cultures, but it's a criticism that is only applied to mainstream American positionalities in order to rewrite American history in a way that justifies "decolonization" and as such I find it a shallow and dangerous criticism worth mocking.

Quick, someone tell me what "Land Back" means, but describe it without violence or ethnic removal. And if you don't know why that phrase is relevant to this screed it's time to pay attention to the memes in the graffiti and the chants of protestors in the US and in Canada.

How would they document it? In North America no tribe had writing until after encounters with Europeans. They only had oral tradition, which is helpful for preserving myth and little else.

Yes, the article is written from the Colonial perspective. Whenever a citizen of the US says unexplored they mean it from their cultural positionality. Shocking!

The analogy presented is flawed because your friend discovering a house in a society with agreed upon law isn't an iron age civilization discovering a stone age civilization and pushing it aside like every civilization has done when encountering an opposing one since time immemorial. At least now we criticize ourselves and try not to continue the sins of our less civilized forbears.

If you want to condemn every historical people that has taken land from others because they could, you will find none to be virtuous.

OK, so read your mainstream press, owned by the likes of Bezos, and enjoy your feeling of moral superiority or whatever. Pick your poison.

I'm thankful Substack allows a place for Greenwald and Matt Taibbi and others like them.

I believe homo sapiens is a sexually dimorphic species, however, so I'm probably alt-right in your estimation.

No, because alt-right is just a slur from someone on the left for anything they don't like.

If you want hard evidence you'll have to wait for a real claim.

It's dangerous to think of people in terms of "the rest of us" and some other group out there plotting evil, against which one must be vigilant, for it is the case that the evil is in all of us, and if you spend too much time "being vigilant" against perceived evil men, you may overlook the wickedness of your own soul.

"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either – but right through every human heart…even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains…an uprooted small corner of evil."

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

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