In certain corners of the sandbox, it's taken as gospel that America was stolen from the native/indigenous populations that existed in the Western Hemisphere before the Europeans arrived.
“None of this reality matters to the woke-scolds who bleat about colonizers and stolen lands. That they engage in what Jonah Goldberg dubbed "snapshot geography" is a bit I covered back in 2016, so I won't treat that path again here.
The arrogance I refer to in the title is that of accreting the hundreds of indigenous peoples into one category, as if they were merely one side of a coin. Did they have common purpose, common culture, common governance, and domestic agreement as to the rules of property ownership, as does anything that calls itself a nation?
I clicked in the comment box to yet again blame the low level of knowledge and education in these matters which allow progressives to get away with such mendacious claims, but I've beaten that dead horse to a pulp. As my wife would say, "that cogitation has gone on longer than your run on sentences". True, though.
“None of this reality matters to the woke-scolds who bleat about colonizers and stolen lands. That they engage in what Jonah Goldberg dubbed "snapshot geography" is a bit I covered back in 2016, so I won't treat that path again here.
The arrogance I refer to in the title is that of accreting the hundreds of indigenous peoples into one category, as if they were merely one side of a coin. Did they have common purpose, common culture, common governance, and domestic agreement as to the rules of property ownership, as does anything that calls itself a nation?
Not even close.“
I clicked in the comment box to yet again blame the low level of knowledge and education in these matters which allow progressives to get away with such mendacious claims, but I've beaten that dead horse to a pulp. As my wife would say, "that cogitation has gone on longer than your run on sentences". True, though.