@skyebuccaneer2138

8 months ago

You're the first person I saw actually talking in defence of Palestinian civilians after 7/10 and I already respected you a lot at the time but you'll always have that respect.

How to define indigeneity is a constant debate for anthropological academic work but the majority of definitions reference or centre the idea that who is indigenous or not is determined by the treatment of people groups by outside colonial and capitalist forces. Essentially, very loosely, you are indigenous if colonisers systematically oppress you. And that does get disputed, people don't like the idea they lose indigeneity if they gain future equality (I think the solution to that is to include historical oppression) or if they move from an area, and so on, but in any case, according to that framework of the definition, Palestinians became indigenous in 1948.
I personally like the idea of including historical or current systematic oppression or discrimination by colonial or capitalist systems of a group who lived in an area prior to the arrival of oppressive outsiders into the definition, because it makes indigeneity an easy way to coalition build politically, and the term is only even useful if it arms the people who use it with something that could help them. If it doesn't have a practical use it just becomes something to exoticise those whose cultures look particularly different to our own
And if we look at Raphael Lemkin's definition of genocide, it distinctly overlaps with this conception of indigeneity so I think it's fair to say that in many countries and societies being indigenous and being victims of genocide are inextricably linked

I'm sure that Eurovision will be used for the same sort of distraction as the Oscars, whether or not Israel is allowed to participate. I don't think kicking Israel will achieve anything - cancelling Eurovision entirely might.

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