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Humanity is one because Truth is one. Reason unites us. Deliberate in good faith even with madmen and tyrants… and the Good will follow.
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There is no use arguing against the removal of the freedom of speech or property rights on the basis of human rights, after failing to defend the right to free medical consent on the same basis. Every present or future legal battle about the limits of state authority will have to return the point where the majority implicitly gave away their human rights by acquiescing to vaccine mandates. Jumping to the next current controversy without addressing the root cause is still just acquiescence to the root cause, a contradictory and therefore already lost position. https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/why-vaccine-mandates-are-unethical
If the ruling power uses unethical means to present you with a moral challenge after moral challenge, and you persistently fail them, then you are not a victim of injustice but its perpetrator. The ruling power can thus derive a utilitarian mandate to rule over you from the premise that if you were in their place you would be just as bad or worse. By the same token, the ruling power must submit to the moral authority of those who passed the moral challenge, or it would forfeit its own claim of authority.
Only one question: why is racial supremacism being presented as a legitimate political option?
Every revolution against oppression has ultimately failed for the same reason: the morally motivated minority has exhausted and sacrificed itself to defend the irrational, immoral majority from the consequences of their collusion, mistakenly regarding them as moral equals. The revolutionary spirit has thus preserved and carried the seed of chaos from the old system into the new system, guaranteeing its future corruption and re-emergence of new forms of tyranny. In essence, revolution is always premature, disrupting the collective evolution.
This is cultural appropriation of the Latin alphabet. In oral traditions names can be spoken, but cannot be written without self-negation. Also, a place is not the same identity as the city built in that place, therefore false identification. Conceived by hypocrites who covet the fruit but hate the tree. https://t.me/gerardrennick/468
Endurance of a culture is not a proof of value but of its repressive, totalitarian character. Cultural stasis is contrary to conscious agency, which is essentially the capacity for intentional change that transcends dependency on that which is inherited or given.
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I propose a new Acknowledgement of Original Owners ceremony, otherwise know as 'Welcome to Reality', that should be conducted before every public event, performance or community meeting:

We acknowledge the Original Owners of the Earth on which we are standing, the Human kind of which we are all representatives. We all share the same ancient ancestors. We are all related. Reason unites us.
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Any statement implying that indigenous people have a superior social status or value compared to other citizens is an expression of nativist supremacism, a core feature of Nazi ideology. It is not possible to transcend tribal or racial resentment without acknowledging that All humans share the same ancient ancestors, that we are all related, that we are all the original owners of the Earth. Reason unites us. https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/open-letter-to-government-regarding
Those who assert that indigenous Australians have superior status than non-indigenous Australians are implicitly affirming that indigenous Germans always had superior status than non-indigenous Germans, and so on. In short, they endorse Nazi ideology by the proxy of another race and place.
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The premise of Original Ownership is moot

If Original Ownership is a valid principle then any exclusive claim of ancestral ownership is predated by our common ancestors, on account of their earliest exclusive possession of the entire Earth, including the present day continent of Australia. All living humans are descendants of the same ancestors and are thus entitled to partake in the claim of original ownership. Consequently, the argument of original ownership is at best moot, trivially applicable to all of humanity and in relation to every place.
Whatever moral violations were committed among people in the past are irrelevant to the moral obligations of the people living today, do not negate the equality of rights and do not justify racial supremacism or vilification.
This is clearly progressing towards total self-erasure. The next ‘neutral’ emoji will be just an empty grey box, grey goo:) So fun!
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A smart ruling class installs individuals of a minority race in the most prominent administrative positions, knowing that the majority will blame the race of the administrators instead of the ruling class for any abusive policies.
Racial supremacism destroys communities from within.
The crucial difference that is not emphasised is that those Aboriginal Australians who are politically and economically successful have relinquished the bonds of tribal tradition and embraced modern education, whereas those who adhere to tribal norms, or are lost in the nihilistic space between tradition and their rejection of modernity, are impoverished, unheard and alienated. I suggest that this alienation is a result of the indigenous culture itself, lacking the systematisation of meaning and the grounding of reason that the rest of humanity takes for granted. Tribal idiosyncrasies are incompatible with modernity and with the concept of universal humanity. It is tribalism itself that must be cured.
This is what Nativist Supremacism is essentially about; Nazi ideology. https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/open-letter-to-government-regarding
"The more skillfully the language of goodness is assumed, the greater the depravity”. https://substack.com/@janniklindquist/note/c-21332363
Tribalism is the attitude of loyalty on the basis of blood ties that ascribes higher moral status to members of the tribe than to other people. The tribal mindset considers wrongful acts done by members of the tribe to outsiders as less wrong or less deserving of restitution than the same acts done to members of the tribe by outsiders. Tribalism is affirmed by a stronger positive emphasis on identification with the tribe than with humanity.
The Rational Limits of Indigenous Rights

According to the U.N., people "are regarded as indigenous on account of descent from the populations which inhabited the country, or a geographical region to which the country belongs, at the time of conquest or colonization or the establishment of present state boundaries". https://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/documents/workshop_data_background.doc

The argument that all humans are indigenous people, with an equal claim on all of the Earth, neatly fits the above definition. Our common ancestors lived on Earth before any nations were formed, which includes all regions that were subsequently colonised. We also share a global culture, a common rationality, that makes us the same kind of people. All humans have the right not to be excluded from or limited in use of any territory in favour of specific races or ethnicities who falsely assert their exclusive, racial indigeneity and deny it of others.

According to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, "indigenous peoples are equal to all other peoples", not better, not more entitled, not more valuable or more important. The Declaration also affirms that "all doctrines, policies and practices based on or advocating superiority of peoples or individuals on the basis of national origin, racial, religious, ethnic or cultural differences are racist, scientifically false, legally invalid, morally condemnable and socially unjust", which is in conflict with the premise that a particular indigenous identity is entitled to special rights, special respect, special opportunities or privileged treatment. https://humanrights.gov.au/our-work/un-declaration-rights-indigenous-peoples-1