I take your point, but I don't think that offering the option after all these years, without coercion, would be offensive. Also, is there economic help? Saudi Arabia gives money extensively throughout the middle-east and beyond. I'm receptive to your remarks, but not persuaded.
I take your point, but I don't think that offering the option after all these years, without coercion, would be offensive. Also, is there economic help? Saudi Arabia gives money extensively throughout the middle-east and beyond. I'm receptive to your remarks, but not persuaded.
Diane, offering indigenous people the option to leave their homeland so that White settlers can steal their patrimony, where several generations of their ancestors lived—the very concept is not only offensive, but also traumatic and a nonstarter. This is why many Palestinians would rather die, than leave, even while White supremacist try to force them to out. These are values, loving the land where one was born, having roots in one’s birthplace, are difficult for some in our peripatetic Western culture—that sees land as a commodity to invest in and extract wealth from— to empathize with. Hence, a deadly confrontation occurs in which we willingly eradicate the obstacle to “Progress” to make room for our kind of people; the only kind we treat as human beings. Yet we act surprise when they fight back. We usually have more weapons, but as they say, might is not right. In the Americas some estimate Europeans settlers or invaders, depending on your point of view, eradicated up to 100m people with a thriving 12k year civilization/culture that was in sync in nature.
Our civilization, ephemeral compared that of Indigenous people, has been remarkable for willingly risking extinction of Life on Earth due to hubris, greed and inability to learn from rather than conquer other cultures. Hence, our penchant for war, directly or by proxy.
I don’t expect expect to persuade, especially nowadays. These are times when people are less open to different point of views, regardless of facts. Frankly, I’m grateful that we have been able to share our respective point of views with civility. Thank you.
I take your point, but I don't think that offering the option after all these years, without coercion, would be offensive. Also, is there economic help? Saudi Arabia gives money extensively throughout the middle-east and beyond. I'm receptive to your remarks, but not persuaded.
Diane, offering indigenous people the option to leave their homeland so that White settlers can steal their patrimony, where several generations of their ancestors lived—the very concept is not only offensive, but also traumatic and a nonstarter. This is why many Palestinians would rather die, than leave, even while White supremacist try to force them to out. These are values, loving the land where one was born, having roots in one’s birthplace, are difficult for some in our peripatetic Western culture—that sees land as a commodity to invest in and extract wealth from— to empathize with. Hence, a deadly confrontation occurs in which we willingly eradicate the obstacle to “Progress” to make room for our kind of people; the only kind we treat as human beings. Yet we act surprise when they fight back. We usually have more weapons, but as they say, might is not right. In the Americas some estimate Europeans settlers or invaders, depending on your point of view, eradicated up to 100m people with a thriving 12k year civilization/culture that was in sync in nature.
Our civilization, ephemeral compared that of Indigenous people, has been remarkable for willingly risking extinction of Life on Earth due to hubris, greed and inability to learn from rather than conquer other cultures. Hence, our penchant for war, directly or by proxy.
I don’t expect expect to persuade, especially nowadays. These are times when people are less open to different point of views, regardless of facts. Frankly, I’m grateful that we have been able to share our respective point of views with civility. Thank you.