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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsQuestion - when Don the Con said "...we tamed a continent...", was he aware that
Canada and Mexico share that continent with the US.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,732 posts)That is, taking over the land of the people who already lived there? Genocide?
malaise
(269,050 posts)But he said he's not apologizing for the 'taming' aka genocide.
The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)You know the 1950s, when depictions of Native Americans in movies were overwhelmingly of bloodthirsty savages out to murder innocent white people who were just carrying out God's plan of Manifest Destiny.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Totally psyched for the Mexico Vs. South Korea match on Saturday.
I've already bet a bucket of stale, skunk-sprayed doughnuts that republican misleader Dirty Donny* will open his fat yap again and say something stupid about this game or Mexico or both.
malaise
(269,050 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Thank you
That was a stunning victory
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)He's using colonialist language in the 21st century.
malaise
(269,050 posts)The stereotype was/is that Indigenous People were/are wild - you know savages, barbarians, all the crap they called non-white people
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)In the 18th and 19th centuries I could see it being used. Not now, though! I guess this is a term that the MSM will normalize.
malaise
(269,050 posts)He's a sick racist