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A reverse Nazi is still a Nazi.
You want to talk about freedom and autonomy? You want to talk about resistance, breaking chains, freeing people from exploitation? You want to talk about the West and the oppression of uncontrolled capitalism? I'm all for that.
You want to bring race into it, talk about the true owners of the land and the invaders? That sounds a lot like blood and soil to me.
People live where they live. Trying to build an ethno-state is always going to eventually lead to genocide. And you're really dancing around that idea hard, just like the far right did before they went full mask off... You're not saying it, just asking questions, right?
Don't frame this by race. If you can't frame this in the context of human dignity, you're just pushing another flavor of sparkling fascism
yikes first off white genocide is a myth
second indigenous people fighting for their land back is not white genocide.
I never said white genocide. That's the problem here - you're talking just like a fascist, but from a position of the oppressed. Which is to say, you're talking just like a fascist
You're talking about taking the land (soil) back for the indigenous people (blood). You're not talking about benefiting people. You're not talking about fixing problems and making life better.
Just taking. Take our county back. Take our land back. Drive out the invaders. Sound familiar?
The thought "white genocide" genuinely never crossed my mind in all of this. Because I'm not a fascist. I just know when you combine racial lines and fascism, you're talking ethno-state, which always means genocide. In this case, who gets genocided? Everyone but the in-group, starting with the most disadvantaged and physically identifiable and working inwards from there.
Instead I think of just people, all living in an oppressive system. I don't care that some are less oppressed, I don't care about what was taken from people generations ago or who "deserves" the land. I care about reducing the oppression. Human dignity.
Not what we can take, what we can give and what must be taken to give that to the people. All the people.
You're framing this just like the Nazis do, it doesn't matter if you flip the "in group" to be a minority or more oppressed group. You're still using the same framework, which there is a descriptive term for: Fascism
If they started genociding white people it would be though. History is not a zero sum game where it's OK for the natives to do to white people what they did to the natives. You can't exactly repatriate people that were born and raised somewhere to a country / continent that they have no ties to besides distant ancestors. I'm not saying land back is inherently genocidal but what actually is a way to go about it that doesn't involve an ethnic cleansing?