At this year’s Grammy Awards, pop artist Billie Eilish made national headlines not for her music, but for a political statement wrapped in an award acceptance speech.
After thanking her supporters and fellow artists, she added, “As grateful as I feel, I honestly don’t feel like I need to say anything, but that no one is illegal on stolen land.”
This comment echoed two familiar positions of modern, progressive left-wing ideology: first, that the United States should allow unrestricted immigration and, second, that Americans are living on land illegitimately taken from Native Americans.