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Yes, it is when I closed the tab. Enough with the self-flagellating virtue signalling nonsense, it does not do any good for anyone other than for the grifters who make their living off selling indulgences for past sins. Not to mention the fact that those indigenous tribes were quite the quarrelsome bunch themselves which makes all those land acknowledgements another level of silliness: "we acknowledge that we are standing on the land of the Comanche" upon which a Cheyenne stands calls out that it was their land until those bastard Comanche came along and took it, followed by an Apache who hollers at the Cheyenne who took their land whereupon an ageing Kiowa stares down the Apache who took their ancestral lands. Rinse and repeat for the Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw and Choctaw, the Sioux and the Crow, the Iroquois and the Huron, the Iroquois and the Powhatan confederacy, the Navajo versus the Hopi, etc. They made war against each other, they sometimes won, they sometimes lost. Eventually a stronger tribe came and conquered them all just like they used to conquer others. Since we're not at the end of history - Fukuyama [1] was wrong - the story will move on from here and who knows what - and who - will come next?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_History_and_the_Las...




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