Maybe the weirdest self-flagellation I've seen
2023-Oct-10, Tuesday 09:21![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dorchadas
Not going to comment on the war in Israel because I've had enough of that but I am going to talk about the extremely weird response some terminally online leftists have had to criticism of all the people posting this is what decolonization looks like takes (100K likes btw). For example:
It turns out there is a large portion of the online Left that really does confirm to the stereotypes right-wingers have of them--they're cruel, bloodthirsty racists who exult in the death of white people (and anyone they think of as white, like Jews--the fact that there are black Jews probably never occurs to them). Fortunately, they have no political power and no prospect of ever getting any.
But the weird part is the quoted tweet above (which isn't the only one like it). Like, okay, you "believe" that you have committed a crime for which a righteous punishment is being murdered and having your possessions seized and in your daily life you just...keep doing it. There are organizations out there for gifting property to Native Americans right now! If they really think, "I live on stolen land, the people who used to live here would be justified in killing me to repossess it," why are they still doing it? It reminds of the jokes I've heard about how tone-deaf land acknowledgements are. Like:
But it's weird, right? This is weird.
Edit: And as also pointed out elsewhere, it's telling how these comments immediately buy into the Western (genre) image of bloodthirsty warriors attacking settlers to get land back instead of, like, an extremely boring and drawn out legal process where a bunch of people have to sign a hundred pages of documents.
(smug liberal voice) "so you must consider yourself an acceptable target in the event that native Americans started fighting back"
— Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable) October 9, 2023
Man it'd be a fucking bummer and I'd hide in a hole like a rat to avoid it, but YES
It turns out there is a large portion of the online Left that really does confirm to the stereotypes right-wingers have of them--they're cruel, bloodthirsty racists who exult in the death of white people (and anyone they think of as white, like Jews--the fact that there are black Jews probably never occurs to them). Fortunately, they have no political power and no prospect of ever getting any.
But the weird part is the quoted tweet above (which isn't the only one like it). Like, okay, you "believe" that you have committed a crime for which a righteous punishment is being murdered and having your possessions seized and in your daily life you just...keep doing it. There are organizations out there for gifting property to Native Americans right now! If they really think, "I live on stolen land, the people who used to live here would be justified in killing me to repossess it," why are they still doing it? It reminds of the jokes I've heard about how tone-deaf land acknowledgements are. Like:
"We acknowledge that this lecture is taking place on unceded Lenape land...what was that? 'Give it back'? Why would we do that?"It's just an extremely weird form of masochistic virtue signaling. They know that there's no chance of a Haudenosaunee death squad kicking down their door and torturing them before executing them, so it's easy for them to say that it's a morally correct action.
But it's weird, right? This is weird.
Edit: And as also pointed out elsewhere, it's telling how these comments immediately buy into the Western (genre) image of bloodthirsty warriors attacking settlers to get land back instead of, like, an extremely boring and drawn out legal process where a bunch of people have to sign a hundred pages of documents.
