Re:Babur the Naturalist
by the_third_wave on Friday August 04, 2023 @10:19AM
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You're moving the goal posts here. Does the fact that the Mughals - and for that matter no other colonisers other than some Western self-flagellating descendants from earlier colonists - never even thought of 'acknowledging they lived on stolen land' negate their actions? Clearly it does not.
I'm not shifting goalposts as I care little for your game.
I corrected your 'air quotes' doing the heavy work of sneeringly implied so called.
Stolen land is legally recognised as stolen, here in Australia at least, and is still stolen, where it has been stolen, about the globe.
Here, at least, "Western self-flagellating descendants" were hoisted by their own Crown legal system - they began by officially declaring the land Terra Nullus and then had to accept that either their legal framework going back to the Romans was up shit creek, OR, that they had no legal basis for that declaration and were forced to roll it back and admit theft.
Which they've acknowledged, which makes it less of an accusation and far more a self evident uncontested fact.
https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/mabo-decis...https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2017/06/02/five-...