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Re:Fringe conspiracy replacement theory, fostered online, is... by QuercusMax on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @01:04PM (#31413549)
Sure it was. It was how the whole of North America was colonized. White settlers broke treaties and settled on land they weren't supposed to. This was mass illegal immigration too.
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Re:Fringe conspiracy replacement theory, fostered online, is... by cato_the_elder on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @01:52PM (#31414149)
> This was mass illegal immigration too.

Not really. Colonization is a very different phenomenon. So is conquest.

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Re:Fringe conspiracy replacement theory, fostered online, is... by AzzieElbab on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @02:22PM (#31414540)
How does one thing fix the other? Post below pretty much explains how irrelevant this comparison is. Pre-state borders?
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Re:Fringe conspiracy replacement theory, fostered online, is... by QuercusMax on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @02:27PM (#31414603)
Never said it did, but people have moved across borders since time immemorial.
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Re:Fringe conspiracy replacement theory, fostered online, is... by cato_the_elder on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @02:47PM (#31414853)
It's correct that people moved around since forever. But I think applying the the concept of illegal immigration to colonization of Americas doesn't make sense.

The indigenous Americans didn't organize their societies as nation states.

So, I doubt that they had "borders" in the sense used here. Supporting this is the fact that their cartography wasn't very advanced. Here's how their maps looked like: https://www.archaeology.org/issues/338-features/maps/7549-ma...

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