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[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

To be fair to the OG Anglo-Saxon migrants to North America, every other European community that 'established' themselves outside of Europe did the same thing... The Western and Eastern European settlers are still doing the same in the West Bank/the Levant today!

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] shplane@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Don’t you know? It’s okay to commit genocide so long as someone else does it first

[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

As in "don't disapprove of Anglo-Saxon in particular as if other Westerners haven't moved in the same way throughout millennia". I was being cheeky, lol.

[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 months ago

i mean yea, colonialism ~~was~~ is a pan-european crime, i don’t think anyone was saying the contrary