The thing is, she was already there.
  • AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world
    26·
    2 months 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?

    • elucubra
      110·
      2 months 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”

      • leftytighty@slrpnk.netEnglish
        81·
        2 months ago

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

        • elucubra
          18·
          2 months ago

          I don’t but I’d like to know

          • leftytighty@slrpnk.netEnglish
            101·
            2 months ago

            European settlers eradicated the native population, the initial indigenous migration settled an unsettled land.

      • AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months 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.