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pat_k

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34. I have no doubt that it was intended.

Fri Feb 13, 2026, 11:15 PM

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The term "homeland" is directly tied to the notion of being a "native" of a place -- your homeland.

The only natives to this land are the Native Americans. Everybody else who arrived here came from elsewhere, whether in this generation or generations past.

But you can bet that when the white men in power who advocated for "Homeland" in the name of their new agency envisioned the faces of the "natives" the Department of Homeland Security would protect, I can guarantee they weren't seeing Native American faces. They were seeing White people. And that image is deeply connected to the bullshit notion that the United States is a White Christian Nation.

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I recall when it was created & there were many who opposed it. SheltieLover Friday #1

Including moi! Mme. Defarge Friday #2

Me too... SheltieLover Friday #4

If I remember correctly, the wet dream was actually pnac's. We knew they niyad Friday #20

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Me too, Beagles! SheltieLover Friday #15

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I was suspicious right from the start when they used the term "Homeland". llmart Friday #17

Same here. SheltieLover Friday #23

My elderly father, who was raised as a farm Republican, was absolutely INCENSED by Jack Valentino Friday #35

Your dad sounds like a great patriot! SheltieLover Friday #36

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So sorry for your loss. SheltieLover Saturday #40

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Absolutely! (does not excuse the current further corruption) pat_k Friday #26

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When I first heard homeland under the Bush administration, Sanity Claws Friday #7

I think when we redeem our national soul 1WorldHope Friday #8

Now, that's an idea! pat_k Friday #33

Whose time has come! 🙂 1WorldHope Friday #37

Nazis favored the word ''heimat'' dalton99a Friday #9

We are a Nation, not some ethnic Homeland. pat_k Friday #30

So say we all. BidenRocks Friday #10

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Using the word "homeland" has always given me the willies. It's creepy. paleotn Friday #13

I have no doubt that it was intended. pat_k Friday #34

INDEED! For anybody 'white', this is NOT their 'homeland'! Jack Valentino Friday #39

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end this travesty. quakerboy Friday #24

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Ugh is right. pat_k Saturday #43

Referring to the country as "Homeland" should have set off klaxon horns during W's administration Tim S Friday #27

For many it did -- but tragically not enough. pat_k Friday #31

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DHS is some nazi bullshit. Always has been. Iggo Saturday #42