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This liberal meme highlights the biggest flaw in liberal thinking. The false notion that the US was ever a force for freedom.
(hexbear.net)
The US has always been a country built on slavery, white supremacy, imperialism and propaganda. The country was always going to end up this way once it's economy ran out of things to pillage. Trump is a symptom, not the cause.
The first step of turning the US into a nation worth being proud of is to recognise these foundational evils so you can correct them.
I honestly don't even know if they can be corrected at this point. But we have to try. And it has to go far beyond liberal land acknowledgements and "feeling bad about it"
As an Australian this hits hard. So many businesses here have a laminated piece of paper hanging in some dark corner that says something along the lines of "We acknowledge and respect the traditional owners of this land"
OH REALLY, DO YOU? DO THEY HAVE ANY LEGAL POWER OVER THIS LAND YOU ACKNOWLEDGE BELONGS TO THEM?!
Nope, it's just empty words. Indigenous people have no say over their land here.
Mining companies doing land acknowledgements >.>