• elucubra@sopuli.xyz
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    1 month ago

    Well, if we are going to be anal about this, the “native american” is simply descended from people who immigrated a lot earlier. No human is truly native to the americas. All immigrants.

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      1 month ago

      Ok, this argument is pointlessly absurd because you don’t get to stop there and have to apply it to human migration all over the planet. If you’re going to be anal about it.

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      1 month 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?

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        1 month 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”

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      1 month ago

      Thank you, Captain Literal! You saved the day again!

      From now on, we’ll just call them indigenous instead and still call this state senator a racist fuck. Happy?