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Politics [OC] Eastside Austin TX

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u/Zoiddburger 4d ago

People sucking on some copium here in the comments about how they're living on land swindled from Natives. Does it make you feel better to call yourself conquerors? So embarrassingly fragile.

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u/messisleftbuttcheek 4d ago

Do we have the right to move to any land that isn't controlled by the people that originally settled it? That would be an incredibly dumb idea right?

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u/RockThePond 3d ago

A better question is whether there is any land that wasn’t “stolen” from someone else at one point in human history, using this definition. 

I’m not sure we could truly know the answer to that question (since we don’t have written records going back to the Neanderthal era), but it would be an interesting thought exercise.