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Ken Longo's avatar

This is a well reasoned and well written article. The land acknowledgements and the ideology of “decolonization” they represent do not arise from liberal/progressive ideas; they are deeply reactionary, both anti-American and illiberal.

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JPodmore's avatar

The history of Britain is a good example of why land acknowledgements are questionable - the English are (at least) the fourth wave of settlers - western hunger gatherers were replaced by neolithic farmers, who were replaced by the I do European Bell Beaker people, who either morphed into or were replaced by the Celts, who were then mostly replaced (in the South East) by Anglo saxons. The Vikings left a significant imprint on the north and east, and the current royal family are more or less continuously descended from another conquest by the Normans.

Incidentally, if you ever see "druids" celebrating the solstice at Stonehenge, that's definitely cultural appropriation - Stonehenge was built by the neolithic farmers that the Bell Beakers / Celts replaced.

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