• unexposedhazard
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    10 days ago

    The people that came there willingly during that time

    willingly as in not because they were forced to flee or prisoners or slaves

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      10 days ago

      And as I pointed out, a lot who went willingly were genuinely seeking a better life.

      They weren’t genocidal as your sentence implies.

      Anyway, back to the original point: everyone in America is an immigrant or a descendant of one, whether that’s from the original settlers 40,000 years ago crossing the Bering Strait or only a few years ago crossing the Rio Grande.