Re: Land Acknowledgement at the Oscars

On Mar 4, 2025 at 8:02:44 AM PST, "super70s" <super70s@super70s.invalid>
wrote:

On 2025-03-04 06:31:08 +0000, BTR1701 said:
 

 Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

 BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
 

 The Oscars last night took time out to have Julianne Hough, a white lady
in a
 $50,000 ball gown, give one of those insipid "land acknowledgements" to
 assuage their white guilt over having built a civilization on what used
to be
 tribal territory.

 

 She paid respects to the Tongva tribe, which inhabited the area that is now
 Hollywood and lost its land when white people moved in.

 

 Except the Tongva weren't here first. A previous loose association of
natives
 called the Hokan lived on this land for thousands of years before the
Tongva.
 The Tongva conquered them, drove them off, and took this land from them.
Just
 as hundreds of years later, the European settlers conquered the Tongva,
drove
 them off, and took this land from them.

 

 To sum up:

 

 The Tongva had been here for a long time, but they weren't the first, and
they
 conquered the land and killed or displaced the Hokan, who were here before
 them.

 

 White people have been here for a long time, but they weren't the first, and
 they conquered the land and killed or displaced the Tongva, who were here
 before them.

 

 So by all relevant standards, if the Tongva are indigenous to Southern
 California, then so are white people.

 
 What the Tongva did was acceptible as at their self celebratory
 ceremonies, they too gave a land acknowledgement.

 
 LOL!
 
 "And now, before we present the award for best rain dance in a comedy or
 musical, we take a moment to remember the Hokan, who we slaughtered so that
 we could live on this beautiful land."

 
You can get riled up over some of the most trivial things.

And you can pretend that laughing at you leftists and your absurdities equates
to being 'riled up' but you're not fooling anyone.