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slgyesterday at 11:08 PM2 repliesview on HN

>the local indigenous people called Palestinians

While you have a valid point overall, I always hate this specific phrasing because it's either ignorant of history or implies there is a statute of limitations on being indigenous. And if it is the latter, you're actively being counterproductive to the cause because that is telling the Israelis that the land will be morally theirs if they can hold it for enough generations thereby encouraging continued occupation.


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echoangletoday at 12:19 AM

> implies there is a statute of limitations on being indigenous.

Is there not? I’m pretty sure every tribe that’s considered indigenous now at any place has replaced some other group that lived there before them.

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pojzontoday at 12:15 AM

This will be the case tho.

US big brother will make sure to protect its little “older” brother. Hilarious as it sounds.