Simply swap the words "embrace" and "retreat" (and fix a bit of grammar), and the writer's liberal bias is removed from the sentence.
If there were papers being published among the Indian Nations when (my) ancestors were colonizing the US, they’d be the liberal elite papers today, basically saying, don’t be a xenophobe, there’s nothing to see here, just sit back etc.
“But the pale faces are taking over the joint...?” an Indian might have written.
“Don’t be a xenophobe, Red man.”
This cycle is basically repeating with us playing the role of the Red Man. It’s not an illusion. My ancestors were after the land, the new ones are after what we built with the land.
We elevated our culture to make it safe and passive, but that has in turn rendered us unable to defend ourselves.
I’m afraid to tell a Mexican waving a Mexican flag in my face to shove it up his @ss. If I did, and I was prosecuted (for doing it after he refused to), the other American pale faces would either be 1) those prosecuting me or 2) running in the other direction. I would have Bruce Springsteen and John Cougar writing songs about what an @sshole I am.
It’s un-effin-real.
...but any sense of nationality we have is being systematically eroded.
The US is in serious, serious need of an enema.