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North Carolina Republicans create "secret police force" (popular.info)

submitted 10 months ago by BeautifulMind@lemmy.world to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

We're talking about a general issue affecting hundreds of millions. My point is NOT that natives have no valid gripes. It's that you are ignoring a HUGE current issue to whine about an issue where it is TOO LATE to have any similar kind of impact.

You are the dumbass whining about how the A/C hasn't worked for years in a car while the engine is about to explode.

[–] darthfabulous42069@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's never too late to do what is right and to make amends for wrongs committed no matter how long ago it happened. Your actions affect people for the rest of their lives, often changing them permanently, and this is why we must aspire to be kinder to each other and to emphasize with one another.

Especially in terms of genocide and other crimes committed against whole cultures. Those types of crimes not only affect the direct victims, but their descendants, whose potential, prospects and lives were permanently changed for the worse before they were even born. What the Native Americans suffered is so horrendous it is hard to even describe. And it is all a part of the United States's long history of racism, fascism, slavery and hatred.

To argue it's irrelevant is not only pretty obnoxious but incorrect.

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

I agree it's never too late. I am arguing the magnitude of impact. Helping a couple million people decades after the fact in favor of helping the dozens of millions impacted today is simply short-sighted target fixation.

[–] JimboDHimbo@lemmy.ca 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's Krazy to be this much of a dick to an indigenous person. I bet you want black people to stop whining about slavery and reparations too.

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What part of, "this is NOT about whether natives have valid gripes" did your dumb ass fail to understand?

[–] JimboDHimbo@lemmy.ca 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, you for sure just don't like minorities.