Have you ever noticed that when liberals point to America's sins, like slavery or our treatment of the natives, no one says "Immigrants stole land from the Indians," or "Immigrants enslaved blacks." It always "Whites did..."
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That's a very clever linguistic judo, pull them into the shit they are perpetually throwing at us. Going to have to experiment with that.
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People's ancestors did typically immigrate to the US at some point, even if it was back in the 1700's-1800's or whatever. The BS part of the Nation of Immigrants ideology is the idea that people immigrating shouldn't feel they need to integrate.
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settlers =/= immigrants
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Doubt the settlers materialized out of thin air. Playing semantics about this serves no purpose other than to avoid arguing with people why people coming to NA could be beneficial in the past yet detrimental now.
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It's not really semantics though: settlers founded the cultural and legal framework for "America"; immigrant groups have traditionally been assimilated into this framework. Read DH Fischer's "Albion's Seed"...main settler geopolitical blocs still intact even after non-Brit immig
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So what? If you call some settlers and others immigrants does that convince those that are pro immigration to turn against it or those anti-immigration to turn in favor? It’s a silly point to try and make whether you’re pro immigration or not.
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Allowing the enemy to define the historical narrative is a mistake. Liberalism triumphed not only by redefining the terms of engagement but forcing its opponents into borrowing those terms.
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Seems like a non-answer to avoid the core argument. Much like how focusing on word games usually seems to be about.
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The American Party died off a little while before anybody's great-grandpa was born. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_Nothing … How could that have happened if the 'nation of immigrants' thing was just recent BS?
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