A Republican got offended I called the founding U.S. citizens "colonizers,"—rebuking me that “the original 13 colonies were beacons of freedom.”
I asked him to repeat that part...slowly. Apparently "colonies" is respectful—but calling those who built colonies "colonizers" is not.🤔
Also, I'm sure the enslaved, Native Americans, women, and anyone not a WASP wealthy land owner would likely disagree with that whole "beacon of freedom" part.
A lot of the "Pilgrim Fathers" left England so they could carry on persecuting people they didn't like and England was a bit anti-persecution at the time. History say they left to *escape* persecution.
When the political landscape of England changed for a while during the Civil War a lot of people came back to England from the colonies so they could persecute people in England once more.
The freedom to prosecute those one disagrees with.
Ahh, those were the golden days. Nowadays everything is so much saner. 🤡🤬
Except there are a number of misguideds trying to turn the clock way back.
Their freedom will turn out to be our unfreedom.
Qasim Rashid, Esq.
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