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yardwork

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4. Little House on the Prairie involved genocide and forced resettlements.

Reply to DrFunkenstein (Reply #1)

Thu Aug 14, 2025, 10:05 AM

Aug 14

So maybe the term "settler" as defined by Cambridge Dictionary has never been accurate.

Plenty of people lived where European "settlers" "went to live" in what became the U.S. Those European settlers murdered, burned, stole property, and used terror to achieve their ends.

I agree that we need a better word for it.

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With Arson and Land Grabs, Israeli Settler Attacks in West Bank Hit Record High [View all] Prairie Gates Aug 14 OP

I Really Think We Are Past The Point of Calling Them "Settlers" - This Is Not Little House on the Prairie DrFunkenstein Aug 14 #1

Colonists? n/t xocetaceans Aug 14 #2

YES! Bayard Aug 14 #10

This message was self-deleted by its author Bayard Aug 14 #11

Little House on the Prairie involved genocide and forced resettlements. yardwork Aug 14 #4

The groups committing these atrocities are paramilitary death squads Prairie Gates Aug 14 #6

Trump's election unleashed this. yardwork Aug 14 #3

If Palestinian settlers did something like this... SpankMe Aug 14 #5

They call it terrorism if the people Bettie Aug 14 #13

Terrorism. Not exactly state sponsored, but certainly state condoned. patphil Aug 14 #7

Israel/Israelis have been doing this since the 1940's! This is not new. Grins Aug 14 #8

Link to the full article - "Such attacks were on the rise before Hamas led a deadly raid on Israel in 2023, ... cliffside Aug 14 #9

State-protected ethnic cleansing. Martin68 Aug 14 #12

It continues to go on. Disgusting! electric_blue68 Aug 14 #14