Professor calls for dismantling the United States
A University of Minnesota professor got hammered online after stating that the United States, as a “settler project,” should get dismantled. She was among those who showed up at an event titled “From Minnesota to Palestine.” She described the United States as the “greatest predator nation” and indicated a shared experience between Native Americans and Palestinians. She also accused the United States of bankrolling the occupation of Palestinian lands.
From Newsweek:
The Red Nation event, titled “From Minnesota to Palestine,” took place on December 3, featuring several indigenous American leaders and pro-Palestinian voices who spoke on Native Americans relating to Palestinians in the Israel-Hamas conflict. During panel discussions, Yazzie, a member of the Navajo Nation, spoke about the land-back movement, which advocates for the return of land to the indigenous tribes.
“Land-back is going to happen,” Yazzie said in a clip that was shared to X, formerly Twitter, by conservative media outlet Alpha News. “That’s going to happen, the indigenous perspective in Turtle Island, and how we also understand was is happening in Palestine.”
Turtle Island is a name commonly used by indigenous groups to describe North America.
“And what we really want you to take away tonight … We’re all indigenous people who come from nations that are under occupation by the United States government,” Yazzie continued. “And of course, the U.S. bank rules the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land. They’re one in the same, really.”
“And so, it’s our responsibility as people who are within the United States to go as hard as possible to decolonization this place,” she added. “Because that will reverberate all across the world. Because the U.S. is the greatest predator empire that has ever existed. So we want U.S. out of everywhere … and the goal is to dismantle the settler project that is the United States.”
Newsweek has additional information at this link.
In related news, Minnesota recently chose and adjusted a design for a new state flag, as the old one was deemed racist against Native Americans and pro settler.
Category: SJW Idiocy, Society
Looks like they got their inspiration from the Somali flag.
I served with 2 Mohawks cousins, the actual kind from the Reservation and not because grannie says they have high cheekbones, who weren’t butt-hurt and crying the victim and blaming whitey. They were good solid dudes that would have your back when. Like everybody in the service well all busted each other balls/played The Dozens for fun. Afterwards, we are friends & shipmates unlike today’s world.
Dang. Now I have to scratch the boundary waters area of Minnesota off my vacation list of destinations I want to go to.
Did anybody from Minnesota get to vote for the new flag, or is voting over rated and so 2000ish procedure.
Anybody here from Minnesota?
Voting? That’s “racist” today. “Democracy” requires a progressive bureaucrat make a decision enforced by arrest of those who don’t like it.
Grew up in Northern MN, Marine Corps took me away at 18. Most of my family and a lot of old friends are still there. They are devastated about what’s happening there. I visit at least once a year, but they all live far North and West of the cesspool. It’s just bewildering to think that one small area can control the rest of the state. As for the Boundary Waters area, Odie, you won’t find a more beautiful place on Earth, so maybe reconsider. Must warn you, though, the biting insects up there come in hordes and are relentless. The mosquito is often referred to as the Minnesota state bird. And that’s a no shitter.
This should be interesting when all of the Woke return to their ancestral lands and expect their sixth cousins four times removed to welcome them with open arms. It could be a reboot of Perfect Strangers, and hilarity is sure to ensue. Must See TV returns to Fridays this February.
Seems stupidity (and race bias) is on the qualifications for being a “professor”.
Further proof of not only that liberalism is a mental disorder, but that NO amount of education can make a person smart, just look at the mount of complete and total IDIOTS with “Piled Higher-and Deeper” Degrees out there on college campuses. They have NEVER set foot out in the real world outside of education campuses while spouting that they know it all.
There is only one cure for chronic progtardism.
Educated beyond their intelligence
This dumb ass “perfesser” doesn’t seem to know that “Palestine” is a fiction created by an “occupying” power. The Roman Emperor Hadrian erased the province of Judea from the map as a punishment for the Second Jewish Revolt and renamed it Syria Palaestina 600 years before Arabs showed up there.
Dan Bongino on WFTL 850AM radio a couple of weeks ago that the word palestine was taken from another sounding name and was changed to palestine. I think the original name started with the letters PH, but at my age the old noodle is going ahead slow.
I have to shake my old noodle into a cup at the lab to get
my PH measured every month.
With all the comments on the past history Bean, I think I’ll get into my re built time machine and go back to that past time. I tested the machine out earlier and set it for 3 hours into the future and it took my one hundred and eighty minutes to get there.
Philistines?
That would be them. Trouble even back in Sampson’s time.
Thats the word that Dan mentioned Odie. Myself and my old noodle cruising at slow speed thankyou.and a Merry Christmas.
The Romans took the name from the Phillistines, a non-Jewish people that occupied Judea prior to the Jews.
Maybe so, but those Philistines were not the forebears of today’s “Palestinians”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philistines
They certainly weren’t. The claim that this region was always peopled by these Arabs claiming to be “Palestinians” is a complete fiction perpetrated by Arafat and his ilk.
Maybe the name Philistine influenced Hadrian, but I don’t believe the Philistines were the forebears of modern Palestinians.
“In 604 BC, the Philistine polity, after having already been subjugated for centuries by the Neo-Assyrian Empire (911–605 BC), was finally destroyed by King Nebuchadnezzar II of the Neo-Babylonian Empire. After becoming part of his empire and its successor, the Persian Empire, the Philistines lost their distinct ethnic identity and disappeared as a people from the historical and archaeological record by the late 5th century BC.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philistines
Thanks for the info CDR D
Certainly as jerky as toward Israelites as the folk named them in Gaza and the West Bank.
Someone here posted an old testament verse(s) where the jews were told to go into their land (philistine?) and kill all men, women and children. To kill all beast and fowl that they possessed. They were commanded to leave nothing alive behind in their wake.
I’m modern vernacular, go scorched earth and salt the ground behind you.
Somebody’s didn’t listen.
Deuteronomy has a number of verses where the enemies of the Israelites were utterly destroyed.
“2:34 And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain: 2:35 Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took.”
Referring to Sion, king of Heshbon
“20:13 And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it [enemy city] into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword: 20:14 But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee
20:15 Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.
20:16 But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth: 20:17 But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee:”
I’d be interested in her policy on the uncontrolled border to the South? We have to keep all those settlers from coming in….
It appears to me that she’s of the mindset of “Criminals are Victims of Society” and all that shit, NO real-world experience outside of her little bubble.
Imagine, if you will, that everything that the US (and white folks in general) has ever done for the world was magically erased and was like it never happened.
This bitch needs to read a history book.
We’re fed the myth that the Natives were peace loving and highly civilized peoples, despite seeing–even in modern times–that tribal societies are anything but peaceful and benevolent.
The United States would not be the nation it is without the amalgamation of mostly White settlers. As a country, we developed many of our ideals from our English forebears, while a large number of Irish, Scottish, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, German, and other European immigrants left a firm imprint on our development and collective culture.
The current popular ideal is that this nation was built on the back of slaves, only it wasn’t. While slave labor (and indentured servitude of Whites, but we can’t bring that up) may have helped early on, the fact that we became a world power after emancipation, and after a divided US fought amongst ourselves, proves that that belief is false.
Funny, but the United States of America was born out of colonies established by a repressive government, against whom we rebelled and established what is inarguably the greatest nation on earth. Where other nations colonized, occupied, and sought to impose their influence on foreign nations, we merely expanded across this vast nation. Sure, we could be accused of colonizing and occupying Native lands, and we fought some wars against the French, Mexicans, and our former British masters for control of various swaths of territory, but with rare exception, we’ve gone overseas, saw, conquered, then bequeathed our defeated enemies’ lands to a supposed better government. Japan and Germany are prime examples of this, South Korea is on the same playing field, while South Vietnam and Afghanistan are examples of when American “colonialism” goes wrong.
Yep, spot on, fm2176…ya nailed it. And everything you posted is taught in a history book…leastways it was way back yonder in the last century. My Scots and Irish ancestors came here in the 1700s, married into Native Cultures (to willing brides) and served in the military from the French Indian Wars up to and including current time.
I believe it was “Black Jack” Pershing who remarked to Foch(?), after paying Homage with the “Lafayette we are here” visit …”The only land we require is enough to bury our dead.”
They had slavery and hadn’t developed the wheel before Europeans arrived, of course.
“While slave labor … may have helped early on”
Not nearly as much as some claim.
It is no coincidence, Comrade, that the most prosperous and democratic countries in the world, and the destination of choice for the rest of the nations, speak English.
To see how the indigenous people in the 1600’s got along and lived in harmony, watch the movie, “The Robe.”
I wonder how yazzzzzzie would make out saying all that Jazzzzzz during WW2.
I’m sure she’s got relatives that were USMC all the way through. Dated a lovely young Navajo lady wayyy back in 1990. Grampa didn’t like me. Nope, not because I was white. Because I wasn’t a Marine.
Boy, there sure are some dumb/stupid people in this country. Too bad it’s not painful.
It is painful; just not for them….
They are a very extreme pain to those they try to force their views and beliefs on.
I’d love to see the debate/discussion about what the right year was to reset “turtle island” to… Since all of these tribes waged war with each other–and took the loser’s land, someone’s gonna be pissed off regardless.
Genomics indicates that there were at least three major migrations across the Bering land bridge between 1k and 20k years ago. I suspect the professor would want to wait until her mitochondrial DNA is read so that she knows which group her ancestors were in. If she is tagged to the 20kya group then I am confident she would also call for the destruction of the later, “invader” tribes.
People (no damn good)… people never change.
They not only took the losers’ land; they took captives as slaves to do the menial work.
Well, what country hasn’t been conquered by someone else at some point? All peoples were “indigenous” to someplace, at some point in history. These people are ridiculous!
Maybe the professor should be “dismantled”! IDIOT!!!!
Ever notice that the people that have found great success and wealth from the American opportunities, systems and freedoms are the ones that want to “change” it? Why?
Because they can afford to be stupid. If and when the real shit hits the fan, they will either fold or become traitors. Time will tell.
Woke Liberals: No one is an illegal alien. All should free to emigrate here.
Also Woke Liberals: This land was stolen from indigenous peoples, and their land must be returned.
That $270,000 in student tuition debt was well spent.
I find it very fitting that the State of Minnesota decided to feature a loon in the center of their new State Seal.
Will need to look closer at it.
I think the first step to decolonization is economic independence. Take away their goldplate jobs as activists and professors and have them learn traditional Native American skills like ritual cannibalism during famines and hunting bison with bows and arrows. Close down the Indian Affairs Bureau like they did the Colored Bureau in the 1870s; they obviously don’t need the assistance.
Punish faking being a Native American with jail time as a Stolen Valor crime.
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