Here’s the difference NYT.
Wherever we or the European’s went, we brought education, medicine, commerce and, in general, civilization.
What the invaders are bringing is disease, crime, dependency, and in general, barbarianism.
Third world hellholes sent their Representatives here to rip us off... or at least 'soften' us up... Disgusting. I want every dime we put into third world hellholes back - with interest. Never give food aid to these ingrates again...
Except, colonialism or simple invasion[like today] is just another reason not to allow peoples into a country. Natives, either current or past get destroyed from mass immigration. War is simply immigration sped up. 'We' are losing.
and besides that; the NATIONS did not do anything (anymore than guns kill) to Africans or any other people. It was the people who lived in those Nations that did anything..what ever it was...and they are all dead. The people that live in them now are far removed and numerous generations past from what happened and they own nothing to anyone ...African or anyone else. Why do we even print the garbage that NYT publishes.
Say, that reminds me. How’s South Africa doing these days? ;)
But it didn't take in many places. India and South Korea are examples of where it did take without the local population being obliterated. Western civilization imposed its values and accomplishments in other places while they remained. When the colonizers leave, the native population doesn't have the drive and/or DNA to maintain those structures.
Then most of the west made the mistake they're still making. Letting people who can't or won't maintain Western civilization in their homelands is polluting our civilization to extinction.
The other difference is that is how countries were started, land acquired by conquest, trade, purchase. Exactly how we got this country. We did build this country, made it into something special and do have borders and laws.
There is no one alive today that took the land, and no one alive that lost their land in any of the building of this nation.
If the socialists are determined to give reparations for past actions or return land to previous holders- then they need to show by example and give their property first.