Is Conservapedia just too liberal commie for you? Fret no more, my dear Fascist. There is now a home for you too.
Indeed, at Metapedia, they don't let asinine things such as the facts get in the way. The most important thing, at the end of the day, is to rewrite dictionary terms. Take, for instance, this entry for "Native American".
Native American in it's historical meaning was a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant born in the United States of America. After 1960 leftists started using term for American Indians.Native american - Metapedia
Wow! It seems that the real Lamanites first went to England then went to America. It's all beginning to make sense now.
But, pretending to take this entry seriously for a moment, I wonder if the English settlers arrived at Plymouth Rock and exclaimed — wearily and with tears in their eyes — "At last, we Native Americans can escape from our land of persecution and practice our faith freely in this strange New World which we now alternately pronounce to be the land of our ancestors of which we've never left."
Are you as confused as I am?
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Looks like metapedia has been hacked with lot of MLK speeches. Ha. Did you have anything to do with that. They don't even know how to fix it. Hahaha.
To be fair, they're not quite as silly as you humourously suggest.
Their definition of Native American as you've quoted it here wouldn't include the English settlers at Plymouth, since they weren't born in the United States of America. By their definition, only people born after the creation of the US could be Native Americans.
Of course, what that makes the people born in America before 1776, I don't know.
To be more precise, what they should have said was "born in the territory now know as the United States." That would include children of any of the Plymouth or other early European immigrants.
Actually the definition of "native," not just for America but for any country, continually changes over an historical time frame. The American Indians undoubtedly displaced earlier peoples in the remote past, and thus have no more of a claim on being known as "native" than are the descendants of the more recent White settlers.
Actually I doubt that the Apaches, Navajo, etc. would even WANT to be known as "Native Americans," since the very term "America" is a European derived name!
What they're saying there is that the indigenous peoples were not called Americans, native or otherwise, during colonial/early American times. "Americans" were colonists, and later, citizens of the United States. "Native" simply means "born." You are either a fool, or you have adopted their technique of "not letting the facts get in the way."
Heh.
I also like the fact that this "encyclopedia" doesn't have entries for, say, "chess" or "chemisty" (who cares about THAT in a general-knowledge encyclopedia), but *does* -- naturally -- have one for "Jewish ritual murder".
They do have an entry for "Albert Einstein", though. Concentrating, naturally, on how the dirty Jew Einstein was a plagiarist who stole his theories from good Aryans like Poincare.
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