News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:When Global Warming Kills Your God by Pxtl on Friday September 26, 2014 @08:19AM (#8372362)
Indigenous cultures are kind of a special case because of the whole conquest and genocide thing. You can't say "if you don't like it go back to your home country" when it was taken from them.

THe idea is that indigenous groups are supposed to self-govern as much as possible... but there's no way these tiny middle-of-nowhere towns can build up enough infrastructure to run their own federal government.

Re:When Global Warming Kills Your God by yummyfajitas on Friday September 26, 2014 @08:54AM (#8372454)
My ancestors are Sicilian, Greek, German and a bunch of other things. I've never met an ancestor who was born outside the US. Can you say to me, "if you don't like it go back to Sicily"?

(Note that I speak no Italian outside the kitchen and I doubt Sicily would let me immigrate.)

Re:When Global Warming Kills Your God by ddorian43 on Friday September 26, 2014 @09:58AM (#8372654)
dude i understand italian but not sicilian, so in your case it's much harder

source: watch Gomorrah movie

Re:When Global Warming Kills Your God by tbrownaw on Friday September 26, 2014 @08:43AM (#8372422)
You can't say "if you don't like it go back to your home country" when it was taken from them.

You also can't say that if the place with the obnoxious rules is your home country. Which tends to be the majority of people.

"If you don't like it leave" works equally well in both cases tho. ("Equally well" meaning "not very" of course...)

Re:When Global Warming Kills Your God by crusso on Friday September 26, 2014 @10:25AM (#8372778)
Indigenous cultures are kind of a special case because of the whole conquest and genocide thing

There isn't a homosapien alive whose ancestors' people weren't subjected to some sort of brutality. Either the rules should apply to everyone or they should apply to no one.

Carving up perpetual special classes in any society will always serve to divide that society and promote dysfunction.

Re:When Global Warming Kills Your God by ewzimm on Friday September 26, 2014 @12:10PM (#8373313)
This is not about ancestors or special classes. A lot of people seem to be missing the fact that most indigenous tribes are sovereign nations with their own laws and government which have existed since long before the U.S.A. This is why we have casinos on tribal lands while they are banned elsewhere. The laws are different. Treaties with these people are the only reason the U.S.A. even exists, although they are regularly ignored.

The fact is that it is disingenuous to pretend to have a nation governed by the rule of law while ignoring the rights of older sovereign nations which exist within your borders. Not all tribes have the same rights and status, but how we treat them is the best indicator of how legitimate our own legal structure can claim to be.

Re:When Global Warming Kills Your God by crusso on Friday September 26, 2014 @03:26PM (#8374403)
I was responding to my parent poster's argument, not yours.

If this particular case is about national sovereignty of indigenous tribes, why is the ACLU mounting a first amendment religious protection defense?

Re:When Global Warming Kills Your God by dragonwriter on Friday September 26, 2014 @10:26AM (#8372780)
> You can't say "if you don't like it go back to your home country" when it was taken from them.

You can't really validly say that to anyone but aliens and non-citizen immigrants -- for everyone else in the country, it is their country, whether or not their ancestors came from elsewhere (which they did, at some point).