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a thread of common settlerisms
"you're just immigrants from asia"
"we're all from africa anyway"
"you were all just killing each other anyway"
"you didn't have a concept of land ownership"
"you weren't really nations"
"we conquered the natives in war"
"i pay my taxes for you"
"natives don't pay any taxes"
"natives get free money"
"natives get free gas"
"natives go to school for free"
"i'm not a settler; i was born here"
"just let it go"
"we can't change what happened 200 years ago"
"we can't judge the past from the present"
"that was normal in those days"
"you can't erase history"
"we built the modern world"
"you didn't have medicine"
"you didn't have any laws"
"so you're gonna go back to your reserve and save your people?"
"you're one of the good ones"
"im the furthest thing from racist but"
"i have some native blood in these veins and i am not offended"
"you just hate white people"
"natives cant handle their alcohol"
"its genetic"
"i am friends with the natives but"
"my partner is native so"
"what do you natives want?"
"all the chiefs are crooked"
"all natives are on welfare"
"my grandmother was native"
"i have high cheek bones"
"so you want to separate from canada?"
"there is no going back to living in teepees"
"hey chief"
"there can only be one law"
"if anything, that's reverse racism"
"my land isn't stolen, i paid for it"
"we discovered this land"
"my forefathers built canada out of a wildnerness"
"that's crown land"
"im just honoring your culture"
"how come you can say it but i can't?"
"you don't speak for all natives"
"not trying to be offensive but"
"it's just a halloween costume"
"when are you going to leave the reserve and get a real job?"
"where can I get one of those indian cards?"
"i was on your side until you said that"
"first that, now this; where does it end?"
"indigenous nationhood is basically just ethnonationalism"
"so, what? you're gonna send us all back to europe?"
"the natives"
"our first nations"
"off the reservation"
"on the warpath"
"higher up on the totem pole"
"you didn't have writing"
"you didn't even have the wheel"
"you didn't have guns"
"you'd still be living in teepees if it wasn't for us"
"just follow the law and there wont be any problems"
"let's just have a little powwow"
"me and my tribe"
"tribalism is ruining politics"
"what's your plan then?"
"can we just bury the hatchet?"
"did you ever hear the one about the two wolves?"
"this isn't true reconciliation"
"aboriginals believe"
"in aboriginal culture"
"settler is a slur"
"canada used to be racist but it isn't anymore"
"you can't compare canada to the united states"
"you can't compare canada to apartheid"
"if you don't like it here, just leave then"
"how can infrastructure be racist?"
"the police used to be racist, but not anymore"
"you're a canadian citizen; we should be equal"
"look, i know you're upset, but damaging property just turns people against you"
"this land is private property"
"if they came onto my property, i'd do the same thing"
"you don't own the land just because your ancestors were here"
"this project is good for natives; you'll finally have jobs"
"you can't hold that against me; i didn't mean it that way"
"you can't just veto developments that affect the whole country; what about us?"
"stop exaggerating; it wasn't genocide"
"you should be thankful that your grandparents got to go to school at all"
"i know someone who went to residential school and they turned out alright"
"you're only saying that because you're been brainwashed by socialist propaganda"
"you're only opposing this development project because you're funded by George Soros"
"you're only saying that because you want to seem woke"
"you never complained about this before, now all of a sudden"
"settlers were just defending themselves from native hostilities"
"there are more important issues you should be focusing on"
"things aren't as bad as they used to be; you should be more thankful"
"just be thankful that we didn't finish the job"
"quit complaining or we'll stop paying taxes to you"
"just be grateful you weren't colonized by the Spanish"
"it's just a sports team"
"it's just a tattoo"
"it's just a dreamcatcher"
"it's just sage"
"how can that be traditional?"
"are you full native?"
"oh, so you're only half native?"
"but do you know any like native-natives?"
"driving in a car isn't very native"
"being on twitter isn't very native"
"we are all one race, the human race; stop dividing us"
"you shouldn't call yourself an indian if you don't want others to use that word too"
"that's my spirit animal"
"circle the wagons"
"natives own slaves too"
"not all settlers"
"it was mostly diseases"
"you sold your land"
"indian-taker-backer"
"you don't need your language to get a job"
"english is the language of success"
"you don't look very native to me"
"you have to share resources"
"natives are overfishing and hurting the fish stocks"
"its all about money"
"i want equal rights for all canadians"
"why don't you focus on the present"
"why don't you focus on more important things"
"the law doesn't explicitly target any Native people, how can it be racist?"
"show me your status card"
"you're taking all the fish"
"you're fishing out of season"
"i'm just as native as you are"
"time to take back our country"
"they should have kept the residential schools open"
"you can't take care of your kids"
"your kids should be at home"
"you only look out for yourselves"
"would you just look at this garbage"
"you can't just call people settlers"
"i was born here just like you""
