White liberals from the U.S. have this weird reflexive thing where they respect settlers, like, "it was a period of dire hardship" THEY THOUGHT OTHER PEOPLE WEREN'T PEOPLE AND WERE STEALING THEIR CONTINENT. Shut the fuck up. Nobody should take seriously any writer waxing poetic about "their family had lived in the area for 10 generations" without a big hefty "they arrived as part of a genocidal colonial invasion" sorry.