The Real Threat Isn’t Settler Colonialism — It’s Settler Immigration, by Brianna Lyman

There’s a good chance that this November, New York City will elect an openly declared socialist, Zohran Mamdani. Mamdani isn’t American in any meaningful sense — he’s from Uganda and preaches ideas that are fundamentally incompatible with our republican form of government. Still, he has a good shot at winning, partly because his ideology taps into the same grievance that animates leftists everywhere: the myth of settler colonialism.

To these young, naive ideologues, America is an evil place because it was founded by colonizers, and this is “stolen land.” We’ve all heard the claims before. It’s the same reason leftists use to justify their hatred for Israel. To them, Israel (like America) is an example of settler colonialism, rotted to the core. But the real threat isn’t settler colonialism — it’s settler immigration. ….

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