This year, the Idle No More movement called for Earth Day rallies to focus attention on the links between Indigenous issues and the environmental movement
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I'd especially love it if the author explained how the South American and Caribbean countries that killed off most of their natives and replaced them with pseudo-European cultures are both not Western and cultures where the North American and Australian anglosphere states that killed off most of their natives and replaced them with pseudo-European cultures are. Somehow I don't really see much difference between Chile and the United States or Australia in this regard, so if one isn't a culture, the other one must also not be.
I was more amused at how this interpretation of immigration could just as well be applied to recent immigrants than the white colonists, and how close it comes to the standard cry of the xenophobe "Fuck off we're full!"
south american and caribbean countries didn't kill of their native populations, white settlers did that, and if wasn't white settlers, it was done on the behalf of white supremacy. a completely and utterly offensive false equivalency. lol pseudo-european, as if they had much choice. you don't see the difference between chile and the us? really? painfully obtuse, aren't we.
Uh, no. The South American countries have pretty solidly been dominated by not only the whitest of the white, but the white people who can literally trace their descent on the other side of the pond. The idea that white supremacy can either be minimized or ignored altogether south of the Rio and only applies when Anglos do it is the problem. In terms of Chile v. the USA? Perhaps you can explain how what Chile did to the Mapuche (and it was Chile, colonial Spain never figured out how to do it) is any different than what the USA did to the Comanche or the Iowa
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If you're so inclined. I haven't read on the subject but am interested.
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