Non sequiturs piled upon non sequiturs. Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID
Brian Bednarek <[email protected]> wrote: >I understood Plain Ol to be saying that zionists by the nature of zionism >require that they occupy what was formerly Palestine and Trans-Jordan ... a >land mass!!! > > >On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 8:53 PM, Regan Duffy <[email protected]> wrote: > >Non-sequitoritis strikes again. > > >Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID > > > >plainolamerican <[email protected]> wrote: > > A Country is not simply the land mass that you occupy. > >--- > >try telling a zionist that. > >On Wednesday, November 11, 2015 at 5:10:14 PM UTC-6, fed up wrote: > >She was obviously using this approach to illustrate a few concepts that >progressives are too dull to understand: > >1. Liberals are constantly redefining terms with long held definitions to suit >their narrative. > >2. The term "Native American" is a misnomer since the ancestors of the >various Indian tribes came from Eurasia by crossing the Bering sea when the >Bering Strait was frozen, following migrating herds (i.e. they came here to >exploit the natural resources). The first Americans were thus also immigrants. > >3. Countries are voluntary (or involuntary for those living under Communist >regimes) associations of people who have made a social contract to live by >certain rules, including borders. A Country is not simply the land mass that >you occupy. > > >These are apparently difficult concepts to comprehend for that segment of our >society whose thoughts and actions are the outcome of random, hormone (or >drug) induced neural firings in response to external stimuli. > > >Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID > > > >Keith In Tampa <[email protected]> wrote: > >"Ann is an idiot living off the idiocy of the gop." Says a Racist Anti-Semitic >Anti-American..... > > > >On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 2:06 PM, plainolamerican <[email protected]> wrote: > >Ann is an idiot living off the idiocy of the gop. > > > >On Wednesday, November 11, 2015 at 1:00:10 PM UTC-6, Travis wrote: > > > > > > > > > >Everyone (or their ancestors) came from somewhere else. > > > >B > >http://www.mintpressnews.com/ann-coulter-claims-to-be-native-american-because-she-descended-from-settlers/211113/ > >Ann Coulter Claims To Be Native American Because She Descended From Settlers > > > >Ann Coulter > >Ann Coulter made a guest appearance on The View to promote her latest book >Adios, America: The Left’s Plan to Turn Our Country Into a Third World >Hellhole. Since Coulter has built an entire career on the shock value of her >political opinions, it is not surprising that this interview was filled with >controversial statements about immigrants, and a questionable presentation of >United States history. > >A couple minutes into the interview, host Ana Navarro challenged Coulter’s >views about immigrants by asking if her family immigrated to America. Coulter >responded to Navarro’s question by stating that she is actually a Native >American because she descended from the early settlers who founded the United >States. Coulter goes on to say that she is also not an immigrant because she >does not currently reside on tribal land (even though she likely does). The >interview transcript that is listed below outlines the conversation between >Navarro and Coulter: > >Ana Navarro: “What’s your family’s immigration story, right, are you a Native >American?” > > Ann Coulter: “Why, yes I am. I am a settler. I am descended from >settlers—not from immigrants.” > > Raven-Symoné: “So that’s not a Native American, you are…” > > Padma Lakshmi: “That’s not a Native American, that’s an >immigrant…That’s just a holder…” > > Ann Coulter: “No, if you mean Indian…If you mean INDIAN…” > > Ana Navarro: “Were you already here when the pilgrims showed up? >Were your people here?” > > Ann Coulter: “Well no, but I am not living in Cherokee Nation. So, >I am not an immigrant to Cherokee Nation. I am living in America—which was >created by settlers, not immigrants.” > >Although Coulter shares a number of questionable comments throughout the >interview, I would like to focus this discussion on why Coulter chooses to >call herself a Native American. > >Coulter’s beliefs about the history of the United States are steeped in a >Manifest Destiny narrative. To Coulter, America came into existence because of >the efforts and ingenuity of early settlers to discover an unoccupied >territory and forge a government. Coulter defends this half-truth by stating >that: “[she is] not living in Cherokee Nation. So [she is] not an immigrant to >Cherokee Nation. [She is] living in America—which was created by settlers, not >immigrants.” Her views on how America came to be purposefully ignore the long >legacy of aboriginal land ownership. Moreover, she does not acknowledge that >America was not unoccupied when it was “discovered” by settlers, or the >atrocities that were committed against Native people that resulted in the >displacement of these societies to the reservations that exist today. > >The core of Coulter’s argument against immigration (which is highlighted in >the interview transcript) is that there exists two classifications of >immigrants, (1) the early settlers that predate the United States, and (2) >everyone else. Coulter is not using the term Native American to claim a >connection to a Native Nation, rather, she is using the label as a rhetorical >tool to weave a semantic argument. Her bastardized definition of Native >American enables her to craft an artificial (and arguably racist) hierarchy >where her ancestry and individuals sharing a similar background as her are >deemed “real Americans.” In essence, Coulter has given herself the right to >define who belongs in this Country, and who does not. Following Coulter’s >argument to its logical end, neither Native people or anyone who has >immigrated in the last 100 years can fit into Coulter’s narrowed definition of >a “real American.” > >Coulter is soft-selling this Country’s painful history of colonization in >order to spin a more palatable creation story of the United States that is in >alignment with her political orientations, and her understanding of herself as >a “true American.” However, for Coulter to admit that she is anything other >than a Native American would weaken her broader ideological arguments against >immigration to a-pot-calling-a-kettle-black debate. > >Dr. Christie Poitra holds a PhD in Educational Policy from Michigan State >University, and a Master of Arts degree in American Indian Studies from UCLA. >She writes about tribal governments, educational policy and politics. 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