• mad_lentil@lemmy.ca
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    6 hours ago

    Have there been consequences for the United States’ or Canada’s genocides against Indigenous peoples? Not really.

    People can just get away with things unless you make them pay for it.

    EDIT case in point, 200 years from now we could be celebrating the jewel of democracy Israel, while “acknowledging its troubled past” but you’re still doing this over the bones of the people your predecessors slaughtered. I’m not even saying it wouldn’t be genuine, like people today in the US and Canada bemoan the actions of previous colonizers. But the fact of what happened remains immutable. The slaughter happened, and the people who committed it accomplished their aims. They got away with it.