" [Native Americans] didn’t have any rights to the land, and there was no reason for anyone to grant them rights which they had not conceived and were not using. What was it that they were fighting for, when they opposed white men on this continent? For their wish to continue a primitive existence, their ‘right’ to keep part of the earth untouched, unused and not even as property, but just keep everybody out so that you will live practically like an animal, or a few caves above it. Any white person who brings the element of civilization has the right to take over this continent." - Ayn Rand, West Point lecture 1974
To be clear, Indigenous peoples did have property rights in their own legal codes and did work the land, so she’s even wrong on the basics here, and even if they didn’t would not justify genocide.
Whenever Gil Scott-Heron’s “Whitey On The Moon” poem was posted on Youtube, there was a very good chance in the comments that some cryptofascist would declare that black people would “still be living in mud huts” if they hadn’t received the blessing of enslavement and tied that to more recent history as a wailing terror that magical space futures will be denied if social justice isn’t wiped out as a concept.
Dare I ask?
" [Native Americans] didn’t have any rights to the land, and there was no reason for anyone to grant them rights which they had not conceived and were not using. What was it that they were fighting for, when they opposed white men on this continent? For their wish to continue a primitive existence, their ‘right’ to keep part of the earth untouched, unused and not even as property, but just keep everybody out so that you will live practically like an animal, or a few caves above it. Any white person who brings the element of civilization has the right to take over this continent." - Ayn Rand, West Point lecture 1974
To be clear, Indigenous peoples did have property rights in their own legal codes and did work the land, so she’s even wrong on the basics here, and even if they didn’t would not justify genocide.
Fuck the troops
Whenever Gil Scott-Heron’s “Whitey On The Moon” poem was posted on Youtube, there was a very good chance in the comments that some cryptofascist would declare that black people would “still be living in mud huts” if they hadn’t received the blessing of enslavement and tied that to more recent history as a wailing terror that magical space futures will be denied if social justice isn’t wiped out as a concept.
I’d far rather live as equals on earth than have slaves in space