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Good, now do the rest of Canada.
At the risk of doxxing myself, the popular beach town I grew up in recently had a big win for the indigenous there who reclaimed a large swath of beach which the Crown outright admitted had been accidentally given to colonists due to a surveying error (I don’t really think politics ever happens “by accident” like that but whatever).
The arguments against it just said it out loud; they thought it “set a dangerous precedent”. So this actually is happening in other places around the country. It’ll be interesting to study the reactions from the land acknowledgement crowd. Surely they should have no problem with this…
“set a dangerous precedent”
I wanted to add: they are right and it is a good thing. And glad there are more wins (despite what I said in the other comment)!
I am learning (still learning though) not to give too much weight to reaction happening - it should be expected otherwise there is no fight to begin with, no oppression or subjugation to dismantle.
I am really cautious about these wins, not because I disagree with them, but what concession has been allowed by the bourgoisie system to allow it to happen - if it is soley a response due to militant solidarity then it is less concerning but if the organising is not as strong we have to wonder how it was won in the first place.
don’t really think politics ever happens “by accident” like that but whatever)
I agree - I see bourgoisie historians arguing against historical materialism as a means of histriography by claiming the serendipity and randomness of history supercedes all else; pretty much conceding that the way fhey analyse history is not scientific.
It’s like looking at the particles in brownian motion and concluding that since individual particle movements are “random” then no diffusion occurs (and it obviously does) ie a direction of events taking place overall.
Canada’s $1 Billion Question: Do Property Rights Still Exist in British Columbia?
The headline!! What an absolute joke. And the article is cope after cope.
It’s also hilarious seeing everyone’s reaction to this after a couple years of “land acknowledgement” platitudes from nominally progressive Canadians.
It’s also hilarious seeing everyone’s reaction to this after a couple years of “land acknowledgement” platitudes from nominally progressive Canadians.
Ask them if it was instead a made up claim of heritage from 3000 years ago supposedly based on some Abrahmic scriptures would it make their cognitive dissonance more palatable.
oh the framing is absolutely hilarious
“No, no. We just want to verbally acknowledge their rights to the land, not legally.”
