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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
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If an Indigenous Australian said to me "Your ancestors were Irish and Italian, you don't belong here" I wouldn't fault them at all for that. Least of all because they have zero power to enforce that, and would pawbably be using it as a rhetorical device.
How is this argument different from ethnopluralism?
Because, at the end of the day, Indigenous Australians are the ones who should get to decide. Their land was invaded, and they were violently suppressed. This is all a hypothetical though, because the Indigenous Australians I've met just want their rights back, they don't want to kick out every white person that's come here.
I don't really adhere to the logic that anargument loses it's characteristics if you're unable to enforce it.
If I'm exclaiming "death to all jews", it's still antisemitic if I'm unable to hurt a single person.
I really don't want to downplay the suffering that indigenous peoples are still enduring due to colonization. But the "your ancestors are from xyz, so you don't belong in abc" is the core statement of ethnopluralism. It doesn't get better if you're being an ethnonationalist/ethnopluralist in favour of the "right" peoples.
I dunno, I don't believe reverse racism is real, but you do you.
I don't know what else to tell you. "People don't belong in places were their ancestors aren't from" is the literal opinion of current real-world racists.
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