Social Justice: Should Liberals give Native Americans their land back and move?
indeed they should ...... and they should also give up their cell phones since cell phones cause Global Warming 2
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The only reason, and I mean the ONLY reason, that the non-Native Americans get to stay is that we're already many generations into the new occupation and possession. The people alive today are not the same people who took the land, and since the non-Native Americans for the most part were not born overseas and genuinely have spent their whole lives here then there is technically no logistical means to send them back to anywhere. I use the same argument when it comes to arguments of restitution against slavery. The harm committed was by people living long ago and it's no longer fair for current non-Blacks to have to pay a financial penalty to Blacks when the people alive today did not personally commit the crime. History is packed with solid examples of one group of people getting the shaft at the hands of another group of people. When the people shafted get a chance for legal recourse or restitution in their own lifetimes then I support it. But when it is retro, trying to open a pandoras box to undo the harms of all of history, then it becomes ludicrous. 3
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There is no "we" to leave the land to. The various tribes of Native Americans were not united. They warred with each other all the time. They displaced each other and took over each others land. Europeans got here and played the same game, but more effectively. If this was massively unjust, it was an injustice shared by all the various people of the time, and no restitution is in order. 2
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