Certainly long before the Louisiana purchase, and other westward expansion. Russia is less of a prison of nations that the US is.

  • Ideology [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    :jesse-wtf: The USA wouldn't have existed without the New World conception of racism, and the old world wouldn't have adopted racism as it is without ideas around segregation coming from colonial governments. The only ethical govt that could have appeared at the time would have been a group of native confederacies.