And yet, all the land we use in modern day America would still have originally been land of native tribes, regardless of what was stolen or what treaties were broken.
Helping to off-set the disenfranchisement of the horribly treated native population in the US is not really the impact of land announcements.
Virtue signaling, as a concept, doesn't stop being real or applicable just because the theoretical or promoted intention is a worthwhile one. I think generally speaking, without backing it up with some kind of actual tangible effort to positively impact actual native communities alive today... doing the acknowledgement is basically saying "we are i guess supposed to be sorry this happened even though that is a large part of the reason it's possible for this theater to exist and us to own it and profit off it and produce a play that you can see here... so... we aren't bad, because we had nothing to do with it, and we benefit from it, but we don't actually wish it hadn't happened, cause otherwise we wouldn't be here, but we are supposed to say something, so here, we have! Enjoy!"
This is why is comes off *often* as virtue signaling and not virtue action. |
