Yes I hold colonial lawmakers and arbiters to account, a thread, and I'm not interested in the "yes buts".

C/W - extreme colonial violence, including infanticide

Yes I hold colonial lawmakers and arbiters to account, because of the inter-generational and geographic scale of their impacts.

I am very, very tired of seeing Indigenous rights abuses minimized in the world’s account books with "yes but"s.

Just up the road from me is a site where my ancestors were lined up & shot for resisting colonial land theft. I can take you for a drive another hour up the road to see the next one, & another further up again. Sites like this are dotted all over our land. Don't "yes but" this.

5 minutes in the other direction of my house is a mass grave where my ancestors who were infected by colonizers were buried. Further around the coast I can show you the place where the colonizers hung children & babies from trees. DO NOT "yes but" this.

They were hanged, by the way, because they were from the same tribe as a man who had killed a missionary. That missionary had participated in locking a town-full of women, children and elderly in a church and burning it to the ground, so I don't wanna read your "yes buts".

From that day to this, the crimes against humanity upon Indigenous peoples have been minimized thru a legal & legislative system that has repeatedly subjugated the human rights of Indigenous peoples to the material desires of colonizers. Don't want your "yes buts".

This is a legislative & legal system that legitimized the slaughter of Indigenous people for the purposes of acquiring their land. In fact it's a colonial imperative.

Such arbitrary disregard for the human rights of Indig peoples can only exist where we are seen as lesser humans

From that day to this, acts that would be viewed as crimes against humanity if they happened to non-Indig peoples, are legitimized through the upholding of the Doctrine of Discovery. Indig peoples did not stop being killed for their land. This is still happening today

Through the legalization of the Doctrine of Discovery, racism against Indigenous peoples has become normalized. In this way, society manages to walk around every single day ignoring the opportunity right in front of them to restore justice to Indigenous peoples.

The direct result of that normalization is the contd loss of Indig lives. It is the continued theft of Indig babies. It is the continued caging of Indig men, women and children. It is the continued violence against Indig women, including the forced sterilization of Indig women.

Global economic stability depends upon the continued dispossession and oppression of Indigenous peoples, and that dispossession and oppression requires legal and legislative permission. So yes, I hold to account all colonial arbiters and law makers who have re-entrenched the DoD.