this is our land anyway, settlers (white people) need to fucking shove it and realize their farms and homes are on stolen land.

this is what i was yelling about too. like. OH GEE. WHAT'S THAT? YOU DON'T LIKE PEOPLE COMING ONTO YOUR LAND? UNINVITED? AND DOING WHAT? WHAT'S THAT? SETTLING?

the hypocrisy is astounding.

LMAO White people can walk into a CVS with a big ass hunting rifle and everyone is just like "typical Sunday!" and then this and it's OH NOES AN INVASION. It's cartoonish at this point, people's responses.

It's beyond ridiculous. Two dozen white folks armed with AR-15s take over a Federal Game Reserve/former Burns Paiute Reservation and they call it a camping trip.

right? i was blown away by the mention of the bulletproof vest. as if being afraid that others will shoot you implies that you deserve it... huh.

Williamsburg....no big surprise there. I'm amazed they haven't called for the National Guards yet, you know, beings that there is more than two NDNs together in one place and all...

i'm sure they would if they could get an excuse to do it. they've been "monitoring" them closely, from the looks of it. creepy.

ugh. its the same sort of thing with the First People here in Australia.
Less "military invasion"(???what the actual fuck??? Thats pretty fucking paranoid) and more the police showing up to move along a circle of people sitting at a park, having a good time, maybe drinking a beer or two - but the white family gatherings that do the same thing in the same park AT THE SAME TIME aren't moved along.
Is it because they have a picnic blanket? Is it because they are drinking wine?
Is it because they aren't Aboriginal, therefore "clean" and "well behaved"?

Its about time we stop being scared or disgusted by the people we have tried slaughtering.
They don't want to commit mass genocide, thats an US thing. If we could stop being scared of small groups of people that'd be great, thanks.

colonialism is a global issue, unfortunately, and in order to look past the eradication of indigenous cultures and peoples... well, a society has to be inherently racist. it's a very... distressing thing to live and deal with.

You're kind of being a hypocrite yourself there, in your own comments you imply white people would deserve to get shot, if they did in this situation. This whole thing is pretty harmless from the sound of it, plus they have permission from the land owner to be there, so I agree people are making a big deal out of nothing. But you sure do have a heavy focus on them being white, you sure like calling out racism, but then you jump at the opportunity to be racist to white people.

Now lets look at the facts, these people are protesters and the Dakota pipeline protest has been very controversial on both sides. On one hand, these people are concerned the pipe will tread on sacred land and if a spill were to occur, it would cause massive environmental damage. On the other side, they claim these views are completely unfounded and completion of the pipe would have huge economic value and less value on foreign oil, gas prices would go down as well as other advantages to having this project completed.

It's hard to say where the truth and lies are on both sides, but what is seen from an outside perspective looking in, is the protesters incite riots and try to use force, which I can't completely blame them as they're being ignored. While the other side is using force back against them and many of these protesters have been arrested.

So maybe it's not so much of a white people being "racist" thing and more of a legitimate concern of having people who employ violence and incite riots to push for what they want, an end to a multi billion dollar project they're concerned about.

I'd say they should take maybe get some actual science on board.

What do I mean by this? WELL, the world used to use leaded oil in gasoline, imagine the harm it would have caused if we still used leaded gasoline today. What made them stop? A scientist by the name of Clair Cameron Patterson, the man who invented the clean room and the man who discovered the closest approximate age of the earth. He lobbied to have lead removed from petrol, but he was faced with pseudo science and greed. But in spite of that, he pushed with the facts and proved it was causing harm not only to the environment, but also to people and children being born.

He didn't need to use violence, or to shout at people just doing their job, he went for the throat of the big wigs, and promoted a huge change that we all owe big time for him, if not for him our planet would be far worse off and you and I would be very likely to be born with mild to severe birth defects, because of the entire world being exposed to dangerous levels of lead every day.

That's how you make real change, not with a riot and unproven concerns. And hey, maybe their concerns are grounded in facts, but they need to do a better job at presenting it, shouting at some schmuck in a hard hat just doing his job, wont solve anything.

get the fuck out of here, white boy.