The myth of the ‘stolen country’
Spectator USA,
by
Jeff Fynn-Paul
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
9/25/2020 5:02:50 AM
Last month, in the middle of the COVID panic, a group of freshmen at the University of Connecticut were welcomed to their campus via a series of online ‘events’. At one event, students were directed to download an app for their phones. The app allowed students to input their home address, and it would piously inform them from which group of Native Americans their home had been ‘stolen’.
We all know the interpretation of history on which this app is based. The United States was founded by a monumental act of genocide, accompanied by larceny on the grandest scale.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
John C 9/25/2020 5:57:30 AM (No. 551664)
Long article but interesting American and world history, which media and academics fail to defend.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Highlander 9/25/2020 6:23:25 AM (No. 551669)
To believe that the colonists and European settlers “stole” this country from the Red Man, you would have to believe that all these tribes, many of which who committed genocidal acts against others, were a national conglomerate of like-minded people. Every single tribe identified itself as “the human beings,” while all others were not. No, the whites did not “steal” a country, because there was no country to take from anyone. Yes, we took territories claimed by individual clans, but parcels of real estate does not equate to a nation as we define the word. What the Germans and Japanese did in WWII was actual thievery of established sovereignties. No, if you argue what our forebears did here wasn’t “fair,” then the ultimate conclusion would be to never have gotten on our boats to leave our ancestral shores if we wanted to be “fair.”
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
wsdiego 9/25/2020 6:24:32 AM (No. 551670)
It was a different time and mind set! We see the same mind set coming out of China today! To be superior over others! We see it in BLM/Antifa here today by blaming others to control!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
MattMusson 9/25/2020 7:19:37 AM (No. 551702)
There is incontrovertible proof that someone was here in this country before the Native Americans came across the land bridge from Asia. Excavations and carbon dating reveal campsites thousands of years earlier. There were what some scientists are terming "Paleo Americans."
They were not Asian. And, they disappeared when the "Native Americans" got here.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Edgelady 9/25/2020 7:33:54 AM (No. 551713)
This is part of critical race theory. History happens - I refuse to feel guilty for it.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
justjoe1237 9/25/2020 7:41:46 AM (No. 551719)
The stronger conquer the weaker. It's a fundamental law of nature and history. The Indian tribes all across the continent constantly fought territorial wars with one another. Some, like the Comanches vs. the Apaches, were unimaginably brutal, routinely involving hideous torture of men, women, and children, and enslavement.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Strike3 9/25/2020 7:59:26 AM (No. 551734)
Just as with the practice of slavery, the settlement of America simply followed historical precedent and in the minds of our forefathers was not wrong or unfair. Britain, Spain, France, Portugal and before them Greece, Rome, Persia, Alexander the Great, the Huns, all forged empires the exact same way. They all took over land held by primitive peoples and provided those people with better lives in the long run. It's how the Earth grew and evolved. Liberal Academia can change the books but they can not change history.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
czechlist 9/25/2020 9:26:02 AM (No. 551818)
Historically, Biblically, universally, land was only "owned" by those who could defend it. It was those awful white European men who enacted laws to establish and protect the rights to property and enforced those laws with courts and, yes, a police force. Notice how today's savages wish to regress to simpler times.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DARling 9/25/2020 9:29:31 AM (No. 551823)
There is a huge difference between theft and conquest. Our country exists because our forebears fought and conquered the mightiest army on the planet at the time.
Check out a fifty-year-old globe and see how many countries that existed then do not exist now. The Soviet Union's almost overnight demise resulted in numerous countries that now exist autonomously. Nothing stays the same in this world.
I don't hear the Brits whining about how the damned Normans should have stayed in their lane. At what point do you stop looking back and strive to face the future?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
radrelic 9/25/2020 10:28:22 AM (No. 551894)
Our white ancestors didn't need to steal the land or even try to in New England--they purchased it. Sorry to have to inform our "modern" tribalists.
Re post 9. people quit complaining when they get the bigger piece of the pie they covet or are seeking?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Geoman 9/25/2020 11:05:14 AM (No. 551950)
The Trail of Tears was no myth. Even the Supreme Court ruled that the forced removal of civilized Cherokee from their homes and land was unconstitutional.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
NYbob 9/25/2020 12:40:04 PM (No. 552007)
What I don't get. Why would anyone living today be nostalgic for the Stone Age?
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