We are Alligators in Suits

notes on the political atmosphere and discourse in Canada + the United States

Reclamation is not an easy process. RECLAMATION, meaning to get something back. Etymologically derived from the Old French for revoking of a grant and also from the Latin meaning a shout of no or disapproval, reclamation evolved to mean the act of calling someone back, the act of claiming as a possession something taken away.

“Reclamation is not an easy process”, states the Canadian Encyclopaedia entry entitled Turtle Island. Reclamation, the act of taking as a possession something take away. What are you RECLAIMING?

What do you think I or my father or mother or sisters or brothers or children took from you? Could you itemise so we can take an inventory of this reclamation? Are you expecting to reclaim from all Canadians to whom you have given the settler tag? How do I give you what I do not have and why should I give you what I do have? Because you designated me settler does this means you can invoke reclamation upon me? What do you mean by reclaim?

Do you mean reclaim, as in cleanse?

Do you mean like the Edi Amin reclamation? Do you realise that you have lumped the people displaced into Canada by Edi Amin’s reclamation process in with the settler scapegoat class from whom you have decided you must reclaim something?

Do you mean like the Smotrich and Ben Gvir reclamation? Do you realise that violates international law and is sanctioned by the Canadian government as well as many other Western nations? What do you mean by reclaim? Because no one in the reclamation cult cheered when Kahanists held real estate sales at synagogues featuring companies selling occupied territory in Judea-Samaria.

No I will not give you that ego handjob by invoking Goodwin’s Law, nah. That example does not fit this discussion anyway so shhhhh that demon back into its box. Go on, put that thought back. Do not speak that thought into creation or then it will own you and that’s how we get brainworms. Muh. Anyway.

Maybe you mean like the Sin Fein fantasy reclamation? I remember that one playing out in my early life and I remember when peace came for that conflict, peace was and is a difficult and painful evolution. Anyone can easily claim a thing for themselves, only the truly free can live in a world where humble and courageous and honest peaceful coexistence is the only way forward.

How many times do we have to endure this reclamation process, for Jews it’s been multiple times over thousands of years. Hindus and Jews, two of the oldest ethno-religious peoples still thriving today, have historically found themselves caught between two bloodthirsty conquesting religious imperial cultures. The Jews did engage reclamation and now that makes them colonisers because apparently according to western institutional thinking only Ashkenazi Jews matter, being European makes them white and therefore all Jews are white and by that definition, colonisers. The Irish, now also apparently designated colonial because of race theory, have struggled long and hard against their Imperial rulers. So have the Scottish and the Welsh. Yet the bougie reclamation cult of marxist left wing society has decided all these colonised peoples should be called colonisers because they have white skin. We haven’t even gotten to the Yadizis and the Zoroastrians and other middle eastern ethnic minorities.

Fact remains, many people on this third rock from the sun might feel like they want to get down with this reclamation thing. Okay, let’s say every collective on the planet launched a reclamation process who could. What then? Then that becomes problematic. Whose blood is redder? Whose claim takes precedence over the others?

So this does not make logical or compassionate sense, does it? This raises the issue of conflicting values and competing demands. This drives us to misery and we drop into threat state mode and we become alligators in suits when we talk about this stuff.

Ultimately this discussion about reclamation invokes existential fears and irritates ego demons. Identity and Existence, these things connect us to our primal survival as mammals and primates. The discourse has become the ultimate emotional p*rn for the Yetzer Hara, the evil imagination of our psyche + heart which tries to seduce our intellect without reprieve.

We are mostly alligators in suits and dresses or yoga pants or jeans.