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.
It wasn't stolen, it was conquered fair and square.
The native population have had centuries to adapt to the rest of the world. They have US citzenship, they can live and work anywhere in the country. They have opportunity beyond anything their pitifully weak, stone-age nations could have ever offered them.
Conquered AND fairly purchased or settled because the land was vacant.