@[email protected] to [email protected] • 12 days agoIsraeli outpost settlers rapidly seizing West Bank landwww.bbc.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up1148arrow-down18file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-square@Tjalink25•12 days agoIt’s not the wilderness, why are they called settlers? English already has a word for what they are doing, even multiple: invaders, occupiers, tresspasers…
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink16•edit-212 days agosettlers also has other connotations which is probably why is was chosen. to settle something = agree to settle down = calm and mature to settle for something = compromise to settle a dispute = legal and fair None of which is remotely close to what these people are doing when they steal.
It’s not the wilderness, why are they called settlers? English already has a word for what they are doing, even multiple: invaders, occupiers, tresspasers…
settlers also has other connotations which is probably why is was chosen.
to settle something = agree
to settle down = calm and mature
to settle for something = compromise
to settle a dispute = legal and fair
None of which is remotely close to what these people are doing when they steal.
Thieves.
And often murderers, too.