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“We were at a village that Israeli settlers had destroyed, they had destroyed the school, they had destroyed that village, and we were just looking at it,” said Khanna, a progressive lawmaker from California in the U.S. House of ​Representatives.

“And these hoodlums come in with machine guns – M4, an American-made machine gun – and they detain us. They block off the road. And then they call the IDF and ​the IDF is on their side, not on the side of the Americans,” Khanna said, referring to the Israeli military.

An aide to ⁠Khanna who was in the group, Cameron Kasky, said they were held for more than an hour and made appeals to the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem for help. A group ​of officers who appeared to be police eventually intervened, leading to their release, Kasky said.

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[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 month ago

In North America settler has a very obvious negative connotation.

[-] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

Native American here: yes they do not like being called “settlers” they prefer “real white Americans”

[-] Danquebec@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

We're referring to two different meanings here.

  1. A settler, as in, someone who comes to settle land that has been emptied through war, disease, genocide, etc. This one, we see as negative

  2. And settler in opposition to native. Of course in that sense it's not negative. At least, I, as a settler, don't see it as negative, it's just a neutral descriptive and useful term.

[-] doben@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Please explain how 2. is any different from 1., as the "war", the diseases and the genocide all happened in direct opposition to the natives?

There's nothing neutral about the term.

E: Also, curious how the settler explains to the native, what the term settlers means.

[-] Danquebec@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

2 is different because it's a term used nowadays, as in your reply. I've never uprooted myself and went somewhere empty to build a house. So, I'm not a settler in the first sense. I'm a settler in the second sense, as I'm not part of any native nation.

[-] yucandu@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

You gotta step outside of your college educated bubble and talk to the average person. There's a reason they use it.

[-] mriormro@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

And you should probably take your head out of your ass.

[-] yucandu@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

The reason the right is winning right now is because they know propaganda better than you.

[-] 3abas@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Americans are very proud of their settler colonial founding...

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