A visit to Greenland reveals a swirl of feelings as people nervously await talks with the Trump administration about the island’s future.
Pipaluk Lynge knows the history of how Indigenous people have been treated in the United States. And she’s well aware of the holes in the country’s health care system and its yawning economic inequality.
Ms. Lynge, one of Greenland’s top officials and the leader of the Parliament’s foreign and security policy committee, chafes at President Trump’s offer to buy Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark, and his insistence that Greenlanders would be better off as Americans.
“We’re not going to sell our soul,” she said. “We’re not stupid.”
It is impossible to convince a stupid person that you aren’t stupid. It’s built into being stupid and a key difference between stupid and ignorant.