re: Stolen Land Acknowledgment On My Kid's Syllabus

People are so naive to history and the world.

I always enjoyed overzealous teachers. I can play along and tell you want you want to hear in order to get what I want.

Then your school is a rather large outlier.

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Then your school is a rather large outlier.

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I went to LSU in the 90s and it wasn't particularly left leaning at all that I can remember. It's super woke now.

What about the fact that some of the highest remaining Denisovan DNA left in the world exists in Papua New Guinea and Australian aborigines? When the Denisovan cave was discovered in Siberia ? And the fact that other discoveries show the Denisovans were ahead of their time so to speak? Humans have migrated for thousands of years and killed for resources. This narrative that whitey is the only one is purely ridiculous.

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The origin of the “stolen land” argument stems from a very particular context,

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And that is completely irrelevant to argument espoused by critical race theory followers and other similar ideology, who use it as a moral high ground for delegitimizing the foundation of this country and western society as a whole.

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Humans have migrated for thousands of years and killed for resources.

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Early human migration was nodal, which means that it is more likely that instead of killing for resources, early humans were just as likely to leave an area in search of other resources rather than spend time engaged in warfare to the degree they could wipe out rival populations. The DNA microarray evidence, the mtDNA evidence, and the Y-DNA evidence doesn’t support the notion of warfare that resembles something to what warfare became after the Neolithic Revolution. This isn’t to say that violence didn’t exist between groups, or intra-groups, but rather that these early groups had a wide range of options available to them, and the nodal pattern of evidence suggests that when resources in one area became strained, a small part of that node would leave to a new area. That pattern is pretty consistent, if I remember.

In terms of other human species, I don’t think a robust Denisovan fossil has been found to make a full anatomical comparison, but one of my personal theories is that other human species might have had estrus periods like other near primates in comparison to Homo sapiens, which would give Homo sapiens a population advantage, as the evidence suggests that multiple human species cohabitated, which is how there is residual DNA evidence.

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As we move through this course, I challenge you to remember our individual and collective responsibility to this history and honor those who came before us. I encourage you to call attention to and interrupt exploitation, supremacy, and injustice, as well as extend respect, compassion, and grace to those whose ancestors experienced such violence."

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Basically let’s go back to any empire...say roman...modern academic...Hey Caesar...you’re ruining indigenous lives and culture with your toxic imperialism...Caesar....oh really....academic “yessir...I demand you stop”. Caesar..”feed this person to the lions “

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Lol. I don’t agree with dragging out these old skeletons, because the damage is done and irreversible, but only a jackass would deny that America was taken from the natives by force and disease.

It is certainly fair and within reason to discuss the past and critique it.