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.
EDIT> It seems that I misread / didn’t read the article. Also, I’m not condoning, simply making a comment, that tries to expose the absurdities o of “nativism”.
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?
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.
Precisely. My point is that nativism is a cancer
Let’s be real, Humans are an invasive species native to Africa
Fuck it, why stop at humans
Life is an invasive species native to the ocean
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?
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”
There’s this one detail that makes the two kinds of settlement different, I wonder if you can spot what it is.
I don’t but I’d like to know
European settlers eradicated the native population, the initial indigenous migration settled an unsettled land.
It’s part of the discussion because the guy is a racist and told a person of color to “go back where they came from”.
“Nativism is a cancer” is insane. What are you, pro-colonialism? Pro-genocide? You have to genuinely have something wrong with you.
Sort of. I don’t think it counts as immigration if you’re the first people in an area.
