Was America Built on Stolen Land by Genocidal Racists? Er, Maybe Not … by John Zmirak

By John Zmirak, The Stream, October 16, 2023

John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or co-author of ten books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. He is co-author with Jason Jones of “God, Guns, & the Government.”

Are you unlucky enough to know any liberal Christians, of the kind so eager to pass for elite, Mainline post-Protestants that they smear their already pasty skin with White Guilt™ Sunscreen (SPF 15,000)? If so, then you’re probably hearing about “de-colonization.” It showed up in the Black Lives Matter posts supporting Hamas, for instance. The term was used all over the place by people eager to ruin Columbus Day.

And so you likely have seen words like “settler” thrown around to sneer at everything leftists associate with Western civilization, from empirical science to punctuality, monogamy, and the work ethic. I actually saw someone on Twitter try to win a theological point by dismissing a biblical argument as linked to the “white colonial settler gaze.” No, don’t bother trying to work out such jargon. All it really means is, “I’m losing this debate. Time to yell ‘Nazi!’ and run.” …

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