• ikilledtheradiostar [comrade/them, love/loves]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Once again they were given a choice between becoming a state or remaining a territory. Not for independence. It’d be like offering a scrap of bread to a starving man in exchange for the man legitimizing your ability to keep him malnourished.

    The ole adage of "the only thing worse than being exploited is not being exploited " comes to mind.

    Since you can’t be assed to read your own damn wiki article I assume you’re just in bad faith.

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      1 year ago

      Once again they were given a choice between becoming a state or remaining a territory

      Hawaiians could have protested, revolted, or one of many other options. But they didn’t.

      That’s the thing about facts— your opinions don’t magically make them untrue, regardless of how many folksy sayings or logical fallacies you conjure.

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        1 year ago

        What if 90% of Hawaiians had revolted (and lost) while 90%+ of the other 10% of Hawaiians voted in the referendum?

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        1 year ago

        You’re the one reducing possibilities. Your dichotomy is between staying a territory and becoming a state. While being a state is nominally better than being outright occupied subjects, prior to colonization they were better off, and you suggest decolonization and not being colonized aren’t options.

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          1 year ago

          You’re the one reducing possibilities. Your dichotomy is between staying a territory and becoming a state

          I never made this argument, but several others here did. in fact, I, several times, pointed out that there were other possibilities.

          clearly you’re confused.

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        1 year ago

        Like the Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement which began actively protesting and gained support in the 1960s, pretty soon after the referendum?

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            1 year ago

            So then your point about

            Hawaiians could have protested, revolted, or one of many other options. But they didn’t.

            Is false

            So to quote you

            That’s the thing about facts— your opinions don’t magically make them untrue, regardless of how many folksy sayings or logical fallacies you conjure.

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              1 year ago

              Is false

              only if you intentionally take them out of context and twist the meaning. because they didn’t do that before the vote. as you said:

              Like the Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement which began actively protesting and gained support in the 1960s, pretty soon after the referendum?

              so, despite your obviously bad-faith and disingenuous argument, I’m not as stupid as you think I am. nice try.

              That’s the thing about facts— your opinions don’t magically make them untrue, regardless of how many folksy sayings or logical fallacies you conjure. NOR how much you try to twist my words.

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                  1 year ago

                  you’re this desperate? wow

                  you’ll do anything but make a rational argument based on facts.

                  • Kaputnik [he/him]@hexbear.net
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                    1 year ago

                    I dunno what to tell you dawg if you can’t understand that a referendum of Hawaiian residents from 1959 doesn’t represent the opinions of Native Hawaiians after 60 years of American control and immigration to the island. If you’re so into facts and stats you should know a representative measure of their opinion could only be done through a survey of Native Hawaiians