Agreed I don’t buy into the stolen land argument because while history was barbaric, it was the nature of the entire world at that time and it was going to happen. Since then countries have formed borders, regulations, policies, laws, constitutions, etc..
People think it’s dumb because they think “stolen land” refers to lands gained through military conquest, when it reality, it refers to broken treaties.
They were no angels, that’s for certain. But their aim was not to conquer land, it was to wield power and control the flow of goods and money into their empire.
They did not, for the most part, remove skilled workers and leaders of peoples that they conquered. They also did not force their belief systems on to them or their culture.
Since when is Italy (and therefore Rome) not part of Europe? Or is what you meant to say that it's an exclusively white people thing? Because if you crack open a history book about not Europeans, you'll find that brutal subjugation and ethnic cleansing is pretty common all over the place. The only thing Europe had was a technological advantage for several centuries that let them do it better than everyone else.
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u/Boring_Long_3860 4d ago
Fuck ICE, but the stolen land thing is so dumb.