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Re:The Koh-i-Noor diamond, and why the British won’t give it... by Turing_Machine on Thursday September 15, 2022 @06:54PM (#32859505)
"Give it back to local indigenous groups" is an entirely different thing from "Give it back to Mexico".

What is now California was never controlled by what is now Mexico until the Spanish colonizers showed up. The Aztecs (who were themselves brutal colonizers, as it happens) weren't running the show there or anything like that.

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Re:The Koh-i-Noor diamond, and why the British won’t give it... by tomcam on Thursday September 15, 2022 @07:37PM (#32859937)
How far back does one go for indigenous groups? Kennewick Man, in the case of Washington State? How do we figure out which Indian tribe gets how much, of the dozens we know about in California history? Do we discount for those tribes that owned slaves?
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Re:The Koh-i-Noor diamond, and why the British won’t give it... by boredemployee on Thursday September 15, 2022 @07:41PM (#32859974)
No matter what, whenever we need to go back in history, some segment of the population feels harmed
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Re:The Koh-i-Noor diamond, and why the British won’t give it... by selimthegrim on Thursday September 15, 2022 @08:38PM (#32860462)
Aztecs supposedly came from the north, hence the moniker of the Aztlán movement
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