Slop.

I'd like a process that attacks Ancient Claims that's sensitive to the fact that some of them are legitimate.

Like, native tribes have a case, israel and... whatever is going on with Greenland do not.

if the last time there was a state headed by x people was literally thousands of years ago, and the people have been vacated that long, it's pretty hard to be serious about it.

if those people still live on their lands in diminished fashion? if they're still around and still live downstream of oppression meant to keep them under thumb? if they were displaced in a one-sided colonial war and genocide? yeah, the least that can be done is restoring lands to their rightful owner (the descendants of the ones robbed and murdered) - i can abide that. i think that would be cool. If a tribal coalition had ambitions to rule the PNW i'd be like hell yeah motherfuckers can i hellp?

but then it's like, the diaspora set in motion in the first fucking century CE can't reasonably claim a fucking thing about Palestine. Nor is "white people were a present on Greenland once a thousand years ago" valid at all.

but if you're a group affected by such Ancient Claim it's easy to invest yourself if you're predisposed to it. Kind of a scary amount of momentum as desperate but privileged people start looking for a frontier opportunity to escape the troubles back home... it's not legitimate but i'd love to see that shit in the context of an articulated deconstruction+destruction of the premise.