She is living on stolen land.
It was just a bit of virtue-signaling, an attempt to reaffirm that she is a worthy member of the big club that you ain’t in, but it has backfired on pop singer Billie Eilish in a big way, opening her up to an embarrassing amount of ridicule. Last Sunday night at the Grammys, Eilish stated: “No one is illegal on stolen land.” Now a Los Angeles law firm has offered to evict Eilish from her sumptuous multimillion-dollar mansion and turn it over to the Native American tribe from whom the land on which it sits was supposedly stolen.
Eilish’s statement didn’t make any sense in the first place, although the Grammys crowd, eager to demonstrate that they, too, loved Big Brother, applauded it enthusiastically. After all, the idea of stolen land rests on the assumption that land can be owned, and thus that some people can occupy it legally while others would be on it only illegally. Thus if there is any stolen land at all, then some people might be illegally on that land.
Either land cannot be stolen and so no one is illegal, or land can be stolen and so some people may be illegal. But what Billie Eilish said, that no one is illegal on stolen land, cannot possibly be true.
Eilish dug the hole for herself even deeper, continuing: “And yeah, it’s just really hard to know what to say and what to do right now. And I just — I feel really hopeful in this room, and I feel like we just need to keep fighting and speaking up and keep protesting. And our voices really do matter and the people matter, and f**k ICE. That’s all I’m going to say. Sorry. Thank you so much.”
Here’s what Billie Eilish can do right now: she can prove her sincerity by vacating her $3 million Los Angeles mansion. The Tongva tribe, which is supposedly the indigenous inhabitants of the Los Angeles area, stated: “We appreciate the opportunity to provide clarity regarding the recent comments made by Billie Eilish. As the First People of the greater Los Angeles basin, we do understand that her home is situated in our ancestral land. Eilish has not contacted our tribe directly regarding her property, we do value the instance when Public Figures provide visibility to the true history of this country.”
The Tongva tribe added that its representatives had contacted Eilish’s entourage “to express our appreciation for her comments. It is our hope that in future discussions, the tribe can explicitly be referenced to ensure the public understands that the greater Los Angeles basin remains Gabrieleno Tongva territory.”
On Tuesday, the situation got even more embarrassing for Eilish, as the Sinai Law Firm posted on X: “Sinai Law Firm is offering to evict Billie Eilish from her Los Angeles home on a pro bono basis on behalf of the Tongva Tribe. Sinai Law Firm is the premier eviction firm in the county.” It added: “Eilish’s admission that she lives on stolen land gives the tribe a rightful action for possession as the true owner of the property. The 30-day notice is already written and ready to be served.”
So what will Billie Eilish do now? Most likely, she will ignore the whole thing and count on it soon blowing over, but such a course of action would hardly be commensurate with her arrogant moralizing at the Grammys. She should back up her words and vacate her home, turning it over to the Tongva tribe. If she doesn’t, Native Americans and their allies should boycott and protest her concerts, deploring the fact that by her own admission, Billie Eilish is living comfortably on stolen land.
This is just the opposite of what Billie Eilish intended to accomplish with her statement at the Grammys. She was simply affirming their membership in the great leftist collective, and demonstrating her submission to the ideas that the left proffers as axiomatically true and demands that all people accept, on pain of being charged with “hatred,” “bigotry,” “fascism,” “MAGA extremism,” and the like. She was performing on a grand scale a ritual of obeisance, a display of their membership in the great tribe.
Now she risks being branded as exactly the type of oppressor she was deploring, or as the shallow hypocrite that she obviously is. Maybe there was some wisdom in the old practice, that entertainers would not discuss politics or reveal their political preferences. But it’s too late for Billie.
40 rounds says
We need gigantic floating barges on the ocean to house people who are racked by guilt for living on stolen land.
Rarely says
The fish might object to the intrusion and fight for their removal from “historical fish property”.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
She’s of Scottish & Irish descent. Maybe send her back to Northern Ireland, so that she’s no longer on stolen land
Rarely says
To be perfectly correct — 1/2 of her would have to go to Ireland and the other 1/2 to Scotland.
somehistory says
someone else of note was at the event to receive an award for speaking a book she had written about herself…something with the word ‘lovely’ in the title.
This person….infamous as _____.(fill in the blank)…applauded at the many anti-ICE speeches. And contrary to her *belief,* her position in government does not allow for such political expressions.
So., Ms. Marsha Blackburn is asking Justice Roberts to investigate the fact that katanja brown jackson was doing what she should not do.
“Blackburn demands investigation into Justice Jackson over Grammy appearance applauding anti-ICE rhetoric”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/blackburn-demands-investigation-into-justice-jackson-over-grammy-appearance-applauding-anti-ice-rhetoric/ar-AA1VLJ2O?ocid=BingNewsSerp
James Lincoln says
Billie Eilish:
Fooled around and found out.
Michelle says
I agree. By her own admission, she should land back to the Tongva Tribe that suffered indigenous dispossession. Land restitution does happen. Maybe they deserve a little compensation, too, for all the trouble and harm they suffered. The U.S. has returned some national park lands to tribes (e.g., the National Bison Range to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes). Post-apartheid South Africa created a land restitution program for communities forcibly removed under racist laws. After the fall of communism, Eastern European countries returned land to families whose property had been nationalized. Land is identity, livelihood, and power. Land Back movements address the reality of indigenous lands taken through broken treaties, fraud, violence, etc., and may include land trusts, access rights, and co-stewardship agreements.
Winston 101 says
Heard this analysis yesterday.
Borders Vs. No Borders
If land was stolen there must have been borders.
If there were borders then you can be illegal.
Conversely
If “no one is illegal”, then borders can’t exist.
If borders don’t exist then you can’t be “on stolen land”.
But mostly, put up or shut up with your virtue signaling noise.
gravenimage says
Who needs logic if they are Leftist?
gravenimage says
Evict Billie Eilish!
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Yep. Is she going to hand over her LA mansion to the Tongva Tribe?
Andrew Blackadder says
This silly wee lassie came down from Canada to California and claimed the land her mansion is located on as 100% her own because she paid for it from the previous owner who must have stolen it from the previous owner and round and round we go and yet she went to Ireland and claimed to be Irish..
This is a Role Model for young girls today… Gawd help us…
Namer says
So how many tribe members is she willing to let move into her stollen house? The land was stollen by the Spanish and then white people from other parts of Europe stole it from the. So how many of the illegal aliens from central and south America is she willing to house and feed in the house and land she stole from the Spanish?