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by IncreasePosts 61 days ago
What exactly is supposed to happen though? "Don't be horribly racist" is a nice idea, but it's not like we see people who put these acknowledgements up actually attempting to return the "stolen land"

I think it makes sense to put it on the website if you're going to do it though, since it's a website about, basically, a building in melbourne.
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totetsu 61 days ago
Well, similarly to how the neo-right slowly shifted the social frame with frog memes and screaming slurs at children on online FPS game lobbies, things like land acknowledgments slowly shift the reference frame of society towords a place where some good outcomes might actually be possible.
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suburban_strike 60 days ago
> it's not like we see people who put these acknowledgements up actually attempting to return the "stolen land"

It's a humiliation ritual that legitimizes claims of theft and invites stochastic violence against the people outing themselves as colonizers.

It's like apologizing for dubious rape allegations; once you apologize for it you've admitted guilt, and invite retribution from everybody positioned to impose it.

Forgiveness is never offered so there's no point to going along with any of these charades. They condemn you either way.

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