• Posadas [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netOP
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    3 months ago

    Why should the Palatine boors be suffered to swarm into our settlements, and by herding together establish their language and manners to the exclusion of ours? Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a colony of aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of us Anglifying them, and will never adopt our language or customs, any more than they can acquire our complexion.

    Benjamin Franklin: Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind (1751)