• lugal
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    Republicans: all migrants have to go home!

    Indigenous: so when are you leaving?

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      I’m not going to pretend that not having borders is a solution to the problem, but I’m not going to pull the ladder up from the people looking for a better life, because that’s exactly what my ancestors did, and the first batch of Europeans weren’t exactly welcomed either.

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          When you put it that way, oh look it’s projection again. We can’t let these foreigners in because they’ll just murder us all… because that’s exactly what our ancestors did when they came here.

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        the first batch of Europeans weren’t exactly welcomed either.

        Is that so? Don’t you Americans even have a holiday celebrating that the natives gave you food and stuff?

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          Americans have a holiday called Labor Day where service workers still have to work. I wouldn’t read much into it.

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            What I meant is that it’s an important historical event that the first settlers were welcomed. Not that this says anything about respect towards modern day first nations.

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              Much of what is taught about that historical event didn’t really happen, or was conflated together. No real evidence to suggest it’s proof of the settlers being welcomed any more than tolerance of a technologically superior group of people.