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Yeah it's actually good to do land acknowledgements, and it's good they're doing one. You should do them too. I hate to break it to you but we're not in a revolutionary phase right now, but a consciousness-raising phase.
Land acknowledgements aren't something dreamed up by white liberals who want to expunge their guilt. They're an indigenous tradition that indigenous radicals (at least where I live) practice when talking between themselves. In the context of asking colonizers to do them it's never been considered enough to just do a land acknowledgement as if by doing so you're purchasing the moral right to continue occupying. It's a destabilizing statement that a) forces the person speaking to know a single gd thing about the indigenous people whose land you occupy and b) acknowledges out loud that the land was taken without permission, which believe it or not is where we're at in terms of convincing settlers that there's actually a problem.
That being said this is a particularly weak land acknowledgement. I've never really seen one that just talks about honouring the people with no explicit attention being drawn to the occupation and its contradictions.
It's good to do land acknowledgements but they come off as extremely hallow platitudes when done by politicians. Reading this almost felt like it had a dismissive tone written by a
This is done by an organization stealing land right now. This reads like they just wrote "SCOREBOARD" and called it at that.
Yeah we're polluting your land, kicking you off of it for mining EV battery material, and exposing you to the elements.
But ayy at least we did you a land acknowledgement!!!
Now they feel completely innocent and can enjoy their brunches without even a tinge of guilt.
A land acknowledgment done by an organization currently stealing land at home and abroad isn't an apology. It's bragging.
A land acknowledgment isn't an apology in the first place
Land acknowledgements like this one seem to be overtly reactionary, talking like indigenous people "stewarded" the land for colonists to just take over once they got here. This sort of "and then the Indians taught the pilgrims how to grow corn" cutesy bullshit is historical revisionism meant to counter what is actually good about land acknowledgement.
I have no problem with critique of the specifics of the wording of this land acknowledgement, as you can see I listed some of my own.
But if you want to talk about reactionary, the energy of this thread is mostly hurr durr look at these fucking libruls doing a land acknowledgment
pretty remarkable it's the DNC too, not an organization that can't do anything about land policy. the friction everyone's talking about itt is probably perceptible even to libs when its on a federal level
And? Pride parades weren’t dreamed up by weapons corporations and banks, and yet.
I don’t care if crackers acknowledge my problems. It’s worth jack shit. I rather they keep their mouths shut because at least then I wouldn’t want to strangle them when they talk
It’s a placating statement. They fear absolutely nothing from these words in their little footnote of an “acknowledgement”