Occasionally I run Americans saying into "#America was a colony too" in way as if that gives them some form solidarity with colonized around the world?It's so ignorant on so many levels. Moreover, For #NativeAmericans, the transition from "#British" to "American" subjects was, arguably worse and led to a even more horrific new phase in #genocidal #colonialism, as one of the drivers of the #American revolution was a desire to further expand and colonize the #west.

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@ncoca Were I to find myself in such a conversation, my response would be something along the lines of "And just whose ancestors do you think were the colonizers?" Manifest Destiny was just a continuation of the destructive colonial tradition.

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