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To the Canadians and Americans in the room…
Remember what our ancestors did to Native Americans and Indigenous populations centuries ago? This is a speedrun of that, aided with modern technologies and artificial intelligence to cause terrorism and calculated genocide and a capture of Palestinians and their homes.
In this era, instead of arrows and spears vs. guns, it’s wire-guided rockets vs. aerial strikes.
Edited to add
Fuck the more I think about it the more I see the parallels and it upsets me.
An analogous scenario would be like this:
- Settler and native group don’t get along.
- Tensions bubble and dissipate, fighting happens, some deals try to be worked out over decades, whatever.
- Native group gets fed up and sets some huts on fire killing a few of the innocent families who had nothing to do with the conflict.
- Settler group, understandably angry, vow to completely eradicate all elements of Indigenous culture.
- Anything smelling of “cultural barbarism” is destroyed, families are displaced and relocated to new areas in terrible conditions.
- Various tribes that were in different relationship states are indiscriminately attacked.
- The goal is to eliminate the relevance of the other culture to “pressure their leaders to give up”, but in actuality the latter is left out of the goal.
- Various treaties and promises are made but not fully followed through.
Looked at it this way, this conflict feels all too familiar like some repeat of history despite our shiny new “peacemaking” tools.