"birthed a nation", you say oh weird why are all these dogs barking all of a suddenhttps://twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1386685340522536961 …
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another is that the population of the Americas was _huge,_ much larger than white people typically imagine. In the 16th century there were cities in America bigger than London.
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But Santorum (who CNN should fire immediately, but they probably won't) isn't making these claims out of ignorance (though he may well BE ignorant because he doesn't care to find out) any more than he's invoking the founding document of the modern KKK by accident.
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That is, he may very well believe the terra nullius claim he's making here, but he's not saying _because_ he believes it; he's saying it as propaganda, as part of an exercise in asserting a particular narrative. Whether it's "actually" true is irrelevant to him.
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