Washington Examiner / Magazine
August 29, 2023 Issue
August 29, 2023 Print Edition
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This land is whose land?
In honor of July 4 this year, the makers of the popular frozen comfort food Half Baked lived up to the name on the carton. “This 4th of July, it’s high time we recognize that the US exists on stolen Indigenous land and commit to returning it. Learn more and take action now,” Ben & Jerry’s posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, which added a “readers’ context” note, a form of communal user fact-checking, below the post that said: “Despite Ben and Jerry’s supposed commitment to returning land they feel was stolen, they have yet to reach out to the tribe whose land their HQ is on, and arrange a return of the land to them.” Land acknowledgments, the public pronouncement that you are on stolen land and are very sorry but not sorry...

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