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In reply to the discussion: Virginia Social Studies horror [View all]treestar
(82,383 posts)saying the universities "indoctrinate" people to be liberal, with students are having their "minds poisoned," which is to "indoctrinate."
Using the terms of "stealing" "their land" is indoctrination, too. Many immigrants to America fled economic or religious persecution. They "stole" land in that process? You're willing to poison people's minds (indoctrinate) them with that.
There are many parts of earth where people have moved from and to in history. No where else are people accused of "stealing land," especially where the previous occupants had no land titles and no borders.
"First immigrants" is a new one, but only expresses the move over the Bering Straits, though some may have made that move later than others, thus "stealing" land from those who had settled earlier. So who were the first immigrants, and who is truly "indigenous?" That concept is only a convenient way to talk about history, but ultimately impossible to really establish, like "race."