The historic white people word for this concept is "teraa nullius" and it's what honkies have used to justify the robbing and the looting and the raping since they invented colonialism.
This is Terra Nova erasure. The land is new! Nobody's in it it's all good it's :free-real-estate: . Nevermind the societies already there it's NEW LAND
Anthony Pagden has a useful book on its use by the English (and to a lesser degree the French) and the reason for its absence in Spanish imperial ideology: Lords of all the World: Ideologies of Empire in Spain, Britain and France c.1500-c.1800 by Anthony Pagden
The historic white people word for this concept is "teraa nullius" and it's what honkies have used to justify the robbing and the looting and the raping since they invented colonialism.
This is Terra Nova erasure. The land is new! Nobody's in it it's all good it's :free-real-estate: . Nevermind the societies already there it's NEW LAND
Anthony Pagden has a useful book on its use by the English (and to a lesser degree the French) and the reason for its absence in Spanish imperial ideology: Lords of all the World: Ideologies of Empire in Spain, Britain and France c.1500-c.1800 by Anthony Pagden
It's free real estate