Background : at 1:20 - https://youtube.com/watch?v=ih2RLpJ1ikU&feature=share
we see Microsoft employees apologize to 20 Indigenous tribes for being in Seattle.
Please correct me if I am wrong - This is why I feel every American should be disgusted:
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The purpose of a sincere apology is promise future reparations of some kind
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Microsoft themselves has NO intention of paying these reparations (despite being in a perfect position to give back any land they feel guilty about)
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The expectation is that YOU will have to repay BIPOC to assuage Microsoft's guilt....
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If I wanted to be held responsible for historic crimes of my people I would go and live in North Korea - I hear they love that shit.
Oh balls, they're starting that on your side of the border too? I can't go to a meeting in my office with more than 10 people in it without some masked HR flack or middle manager coming in and telling us we're on stolen ground.
Wait until they move from "Land Acknowledgement" to "Truth and Reconciliation". It's every bit as Orwellian as it sounds.
It's the exact same in Australia, despite many, many of those tribes being completely extinct (at least in most of the capital cities, where those tribes are, well, kaput...).
It's inarguably even worse in NZ.
The whole Anglosphere (more awkward in the UK of course, given that uhh, the "natives" are hard to pin down) is becoming like this, and it's very fucking sad. :-(
Canada is pretty bad about this. The "natives" making the most noise are college kids who look 100% anglo. Its the South Park episode.
Ooh ooh, and do you have the ones, very much Anglo (you call some of them Métis, no?) who turn to black American culture for inspiration, and then become rappers, who rap about how much they hate the country, and want to tear it all down..?
And does your media endlessly sing their praises (literally), and go on and on about how “unique, wonderful, special and talented” they are..?
Because that’s what they do here, lol.
It’s so fucking predictable that it’s honestly depressing, man…
Yeah, that’s… Exactly the same here. Like, no word of a lie, exactly 100% the same.
Bet they grew up in the big city, or at least “urban”, too, didn’t they..?
That’s literally EXACTLY how it is here, lololol… Funny that.
Australia was the first place I heard about it happening 20 years ago because of a John Safran sketch
That’s beautiful- so why do they put up the signs?
To torment the aborigines?
I assume it was the "we believe" sign of that time and place: intended to make the occupants feel good without really compelling them to do anything.
The good news is, starting that stage gives you a sniper rifle and about 2x max ammo cap in reloads. It should be enough to quash any "but muh land" nudniks.
I think if they start going ahead with it here, we start taking scalps of anyone that tries? Am I doing the First Nations thing right?