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throw20251220 | 20 days ago

Why would I condemn people who were wiped by your ancestors? They were the locals, you’re just… temporary. You don’t even care for the land!

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wang_li|20 days ago

There is no single "the locals", every tribe represented a different polity. They warred with each other constantly and conquered and took over land all the time. There is no part of the continent that is held by the original human that arrived here first. Every part has been conquered and reconquered many times. The Europeans are just the latest conquerors. Except in the cases where they literally bought the land. Which also happened.

throw20251220|20 days ago

Sure. It still doesn’t change the fact that their ancestors performed a genocide on the natives.

hikkerl|20 days ago

It turns out they were temporary too, as they were not able to defend their lands. Now we are the locals.

Again, unless you are going to condemn them for any attempt made in their defence, then you can't condemn us. Be consistent, else it's just plain racism.

Side note: if you think ICE is brutal you should read what early European settlers had to endure...

seanmcdirmid|20 days ago

> Side note: if you think ICE is brutal you should read what early European settlers had to endure...

Or what those settlers made others endure?