• BenLeMan@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    And it wasn’t until the U.S. invaded Mexico and forced it to cede large swaths of its territory. Same with California, Arizona, Nevada, etc.

    Puerto Rico didn’t exactly beg to be annexed, either.

    I think a lot of this panic about Latin American people illegally taking over the United States stems from repressed colonial guilt.

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      6 hours ago

      It’s more based on fear, since the US Latin population seem to be maintaining a healthy birth rate, while the white people seem to have either lost wood, can’t find the right hole, or have 'nads packed with PFAS. In some US states, whites are already a minority, and the various schemes to impose minority rule are unstable and require increasing effort as demographics keep on shifting.