[Salman]

In short, they are saying freedom is slavery.

[nicollo]

The attack on individualism began during the Progressive Era, when the rise of the working, middle and professional classes led to more and not less class envy. Sometimes called the "Tocqueville effect," when marginal portions of society gain economic and/or political power, demands for reform increase, along with attacks on the established order upon which the greater equality arose.

In 1912, President Taft recognized the paradox of socialist envy:

It has been said, and it is a common platform expression, that it is well to prefer the man above the dollar, as if the preservation of property rights has some other purpose than the assistance to and the uplifting of human rights. Private property was not established in order to gratify love of some material wealth or capital. It was established as an instrumentality in the progress of civilization and the uplifting of man, and it is equality of opportunity that private property promotes by assuring to man the result of his own labor, thrift, and self-restraint. When, therefore, the demagogue mounts the platform and announces that he prefers the man above the dollar, he ought to be interrogated as to what he means thereby -- whether he is in favor of abolishing the right of the institution of private property and of taking away from the poor man the opportunity to become wealthy by the use of the abilities that God has given him, the cultivation of the virtues with which practice of self-restraint and the exercise of moral courage will fortify him.

[.44 Special]

Find a copy of Lewis and Clarks Diaries of there expedition. Pat particular attention to their description of what the the indigenous natives of the Columbia River Valley were like. These were hardened men. It’s enough to make your eyes run.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I'm worried for my newly married daughter and her husband -- they live near Spokane and will be affected by this crap when they have kids. Neither of them are political and don't follow this dreadful trend. I hope to educate them about the pernicious educational system in Washington, but I'm not sure they want to hear what's going on.

These "Land Acknowledgments" are the latest virtue-signaling, meaningless gesture. If these people REALLY believed this crap, they'd sign the deeds to their homes and land over to the Indians. Otherwise it's just another feel-good empty steaming pile of hypocrisy, just like the celebrities who do not sell their private jets, yachts, and mansions to reduce their "carbon footprints."

They put up a stupid slide, spend five seconds reading it, then feel very smug and self-satisfied about how much they CARE for the Native Americans.

[Impala64ssa]

FTA:"we are on the traditional homelands of the Puyallup Tribe"

Oh, yeah? Which peoples did the Puyallups steal what they claim as their traditional homelands from?