@jeffwM to News • 4 months agoIdaho state senator tells Native American candidate to “go back where you came from”www.motherjones.comexternal-linkmessage-square96arrow-up1701arrow-down18cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-square@AlexanderTheDeadlink26•4 months agoIf 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?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink-9•4 months agoAgree, 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”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•4 months agoThere’s this one detail that makes the two kinds of settlement different, I wonder if you can spot what it is.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish9•4 months agoEuropean settlers eradicated the native population, the initial indigenous migration settled an unsettled land.
minus-square@AlexanderTheDeadlink1•4 months agoIt’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.
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?
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”
There’s this one detail that makes the two kinds of settlement different, I wonder if you can spot what it is.
I don’t but I’d like to know
European settlers eradicated the native population, the initial indigenous migration settled an unsettled land.
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.