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soothsayer

(38,601 posts) Wed Jul 8, 2020, 10:40 AM Jul 2020

Vile official WH tweet I missed: dog whistle edition

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"Americans are the people who pursued our Manifest Destiny across the ocean, into the uncharted wilderness, over the tallest mountains, and then into the skies and even into the stars."

(Thanks to the ever excellent Heather Cox Richardson for mentioning it in her daily missive.)

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Vile official WH tweet I missed: dog whistle edition (Original Post) soothsayer Jul 2020 OP

Yikes gollygee Jul 2020 #1

What a racist trope! 2naSalit Jul 2020 #3

Behind every manifest destiny is a thief. C_U_L8R Jul 2020 #2

Manifest destiny then was barbarism, to do that now is barbarism. GemDigger Jul 2020 #4

"We won"? czarjak Jul 2020 #5

gollygee

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1. Yikes

Reply to soothsayer (Original post)

Wed Jul 8, 2020, 10:42 AM

Jul 2020

"Uncharted wilderness" was very much charted. That's up there with Columbus "discovering" an America full of people.

And so much for all the people colonized and killed for our Manifest Destiny.