How do you manage to get racist out of that? The fact is that borders and land ownership change over time, they always have. I'm curious to know when you think that changes. Because saying it's not US land, seems to me not to be too different from Putin's justification for invading Ukraine or the Reichsbürgers rejecting the German government. We don't claim that most of Asia is really the Mongol Empire or that everything around the Mediterranean should still be the Roman Empire. So how are you deciding who should own land? The first one there forever and for always? Do you feel that pretty much every country is stolen land?
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~
How do you manage to get racist out of that? The fact is that borders and land ownership change over time, they always have. I'm curious to know when you think that changes. Because saying it's not US land, seems to me not to be too different from Putin's justification for invading Ukraine or the Reichsbürgers rejecting the German government. We don't claim that most of Asia is really the Mongol Empire or that everything around the Mediterranean should still be the Roman Empire. So how are you deciding who should own land? The first one there forever and for always? Do you feel that pretty much every country is stolen land?
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~