• elucubra@sopuli.xyz
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    28 days ago

    Well, if we are going to be anal about this, the “native american” is simply descended from people who immigrated a lot earlier. No human is truly native to the americas. All immigrants.

    EDIT> It seems that I misread / didn’t read the article. Also, I’m not condoning, simply making a comment, that tries to expose the absurdities o of “nativism”.

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      28 days ago

      If we’re going to be anal about it, we don’t need to mention ancestors at all. One of these people was born in Idaho. The other was not. Get it?

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        28 days ago

        Agree, but then the whole Native American thing has no place in the discussion, no? I-m just trying to point out the absurdities of “nativism”

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          There’s this one detail that makes the two kinds of settlement different, I wonder if you can spot what it is.

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          27 days ago

          It’s part of the discussion because the guy is a racist and told a person of color to “go back where they came from”.

          “Nativism is a cancer” is insane. What are you, pro-colonialism? Pro-genocide? You have to genuinely have something wrong with you.

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      Ok, this argument is pointlessly absurd because you don’t get to stop there and have to apply it to human migration all over the planet. If you’re going to be anal about it.

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      28 days ago

      Thank you, Captain Literal! You saved the day again!

      From now on, we’ll just call them indigenous instead and still call this state senator a racist fuck. Happy?

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      27 days ago

      Sort of. I don’t think it counts as immigration if you’re the first people in an area.