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And the West. \u00a0Good to see. \u00a0Mark threw out a little dig at Jews who aren\u2019t on board with Pope Francis<\/a>, though admittedly in a way that seems \u2013 to my eyes that aren\u2019t part of that culture \u2013 a bit strange. \u00a0But since I\u2019m sure my culture seems strange to others who aren\u2019t in mine, I tend to be slow on judging the strangeness of other cultures.<\/div>\n
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Anyway, one of his regular readers jumped in pretty quickly and asked how we can see a difference between Israel\u2019s treatment of the Palestinians versus Europeans\u2019 treatment of Native Americans. \u00a0Seemed like bait, since most liberals will immediately say there is no difference. \u00a0In each case it is a vile and contemptible race of evil imperialists assaulting the lands of beautiful, godlike beings. \u00a0<\/div>\n
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But wait. \u00a0The strangely anonymous \u2018Guest\u2019 appears with what is stacking up to be some pretty sane, well thought out and penetrating wisdom and logic. \u00a0Guest reminds us that Native American (a rather artificial label I\u2019m not altogether fond of) is a vague term that doesn\u2019t take into account the thousands of years and thousands of people groups who lived, fought and died here long before the first Europeans arrived. \u00a0I second the notion.\u00a0<\/div>\n
H. Garrett, whose hatred of America and the West is well known and admitted, chastised me, reminding me that it is still a story of beautiful people being cast off their lands by the forces of Evil. \u00a0I had neither the time nor desire to get pulled into another long, pointless debate about that, but didn\u2019t have to. \u00a0Pete the Greek, who I don\u2019t always agree with but appreciate his candor, jumped in and literally smashed Garrett\u2019s mythical Multi-Cultural fantasy world. \u00a0<\/div>\n
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It\u2019s good to see there are still the sane out there who don\u2019t embrace the bigotry, hatred and prejudice against the Anglo-European Christian Culture that is so popular among the liberal Multi-Cultural crowd, as well as those who embrace it for their own purposes. \u00a0Nice to see some still realize sin and evil are universal, and not everything that came out of the West, or even America, is worthy of condemnation. \u00a0That is why I can forgive Native Americans for slaughtering innocent immigrants from Europe, but I can also forgive Columbus and what he did, as well as US citizens who live along our border today for being worried about illegal immigration, while also sympathizing with those coming for a better life. \u00a0See how it works? \u00a0It\u2019s almost like we\u2019re all the same after all.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Anyway, well done Pete. \u00a0<\/div>\n
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Historical Note: <\/b>The picture is, of course, typical liberal bilge. \u00a0The actual pilgrims were guilty of none of those things, or at least no more so than the American Indians with which they were dealing. Only the modern acceptable racism, which condemns all people of a certain skin color because of that done by others of the same color, would suggest so. \u00a0<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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