Anonymous #3 1d

I can’t get anyone to tell me how today’s America First movement is racist

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Anonymous #2 1d

Wanting to put your country first

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Anonymous OP 1d

That's called imperialism.

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Anonymous #2 1d

No that’s when you try to control other countries

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Anonymous OP 1d

America First has never been a neutral phrase. In the 1920s the KKK made it one of their main slogans and marched with "America First" banners right next to "White Supremacy." In 1941 Charles Lindbergh stood on the America First Committee's stage and named Jews as one of the forces dragging the US into war. The people who built this slogan told us exactly who they meant by "America."

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Anonymous OP 1d

And today's movement is not much better. A travel ban aimed at Muslim-majority countries. Migrants from Latin America called an "invasion." Birthright citizenship challenged for the kids of immigrants. None of that is about trade or staying out of wars. It's about deciding who counts as a real American, and the line keeps landing on race and religion.

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Anonymous OP 1d

"Put your country first" assumes the country belongs to a certain group. This was Indigenous land before it was America, and it was built with enslaved labor. A movement that treats white, Christian, native-born people as the default American and everyone else as a threat is racist, whether or not anyone says a slur out loud.

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Anonymous #2 1d

It’s neutral now.

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Anonymous OP 1d

And "America First" is a cuter way of saying that :/

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Anonymous OP 1d

Read everything first.

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Anonymous #2 1d

No? I was to put America and only America first

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Anonymous OP 1d

That phrase on its own means effectively nothing other than "every other country is beneath us" i suppose a better word would be nationalism or supremacy.

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Anonymous #2 1d

You genuinely have to be baiting

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Anonymous OP 1d

Says you. Read all of my comments you uneducated twerp.

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Anonymous OP 1d

Uh huh yeah right

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Anonymous OP 1d

You asked how it's racist, got the history and the current policies, and answered with "you have to be baiting." That's not a rebuttal. If the slogan has nothing to do with race, explain why the KKK and Lindbergh both picked it.

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Anonymous #2 1d

When I say America first I am not referencing any other country. I am not saying anything about any other country. I am saying that if we live in America we should want our government to put AMERICA FIRSY

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Anonymous #2 1d

Noting to say about this nation's ontology?

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Anonymous #2 1d

I’m currently fighting off like 20 of the dumbest communists I’ve ever seen hang on

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Anonymous OP 1d

You literally said "America and only America first." When one country's interests are the only ones that count, that's supremacy, not patriotism. Every government looks out for its own people. America First goes further: everyone else only matters when they're useful to us. And at home it decides who counts as "America," and that line keeps falling on race and religion.

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Anonymous OP 1d

Not a communist just a history major.

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Anonymous #2 1d

The original natives who slaughtered and killed each other regularly, were beaten by us even with a home turf advantage. We don’t really owe them anything

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Anonymous OP 1d

Maybe you should stop fighting and try listening 👂

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Anonymous #2 1d

IM NOT SAYING ANYTHING BAD ABOUT ANOTHER COUNTRY. If we have the option to send another billion to Africa or use that Billion to help repair flood damage in AMERICA I would rather it go towards that

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Anonymous OP 1d

"They killed each other" isn't an argument. Native nations fought wars like every people on earth. Europe spent those same centuries on wars like the Thirty Years' War, which killed millions, and nobody says Germans forfeited their land. Many Native nations also built lasting alliances, like the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, which had a working constitution before the US existed. 1/4

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Anonymous OP 1d

There was no fair fight. Smallpox and other epidemics killed up to 90% of some Native populations, often before settlers even reached an area. Even then, many nations resisted for centuries. And most land wasn't won in battle. It was taken through treaties the US signed and then broke, and through forced removals like the Trail of Tears. 2/4

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Anonymous OP 1d

"We owe them nothing" is legally false. The Constitution makes treaties the supreme law of the land, and the US signed hundreds with tribes in exchange for land. In 2020 the Supreme Court ruled in McGirt v. Oklahoma that a treaty reservation still legally exists because Congress never ended it. Those obligations are written down and still binding. 3/4

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Anonymous OP 1d

And that's the whole point. The system built on that land still decides who counts: whose land can be taken, whose kids can be sent away, whose treaties can be ignored. Calling Native people violent and conquered so nothing is owed is the same logic that built it. That's what "America First" stands on. 4/4

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Anonymous OP 1d

That's a false choice. Foreign aid has been around 1% of the federal budget, and disaster relief doesn't come out of that pot anyway. The America First administration itself cut FEMA's disaster-prevention grants, so floods clearly aren't the priority. Also notice which place you picked to make your point: Africa. Out of every country we send money to, that's where you went. That's the part people are pointing at.

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Anonymous #4 17h

What group are you

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Anonymous OP 15h

Hey buddy did you not learn anything today?

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