At some point in my 14-year limbo between student visa and citizenship, my attitude towards nativists everywhere on earth flipped from fear to contempt. All that remains is a healthy fear of guns, paperwork backed by guns, and respect for the principle of rule of law. That’s it.
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When I find people who genuinely live the deep time of a place, I usually find that they are the opposite of nativists. They are broad minded, often know a shit ton about distant places as well, and exhibit a sense of having earned rather than inherited a connection to a place
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Incidentally this means being careful about arguments about historical wrongs. Europeans colonizing Americas by force/disease was wrong because of the violence/cruelty of process. Not because “native” Americans have a special spiritual claim merely by being first by 10-20k years
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My previous rant on this subject from 10 months ago.
https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1055493554594697217?s=21 …Show this thread
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