WHY YOU'RE A FUCKING RETARD IF YOU THINK UNITED STATES STOLE LAND FROM MEXICO

Aside from the whole notion that pretty much all land has been conquored and reconquored multiple times over centuries...

And aside from the whole notion that Spain stole a shit-ton of land across Central America...

Highlighted Comments:

"Whenever I hear somebody say we stole land from Mexico, I always ask, "How did that land come to be Mexico?""

"There’s not one square foot of land on the planet that has not been conquered and subsequently lost many times. The reality is that the civilizations that are strong in numbers, technology and culture survive and advance over the weak civilizations. There was no constitution, no bill of rights and no Magna Carta. There was no government structured to protect the rights of the weak against the strong. Our form of government is by no means perfect but the constitution and especially the bill of rights are unique in the history of the world in the protection of individual rights and liberty that it affords."

"Another myth that is perpetuated by the ignorant and anti-American sentiment is that slavery was primarily an American evil. I think it would absolutely shock most people, even most Americans, to learn that only 5% of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade went to the US/American colonies. The vast majority went to Brazil, the Spanish Americas and the Caribbean."

"Please also include the Gadsden Purchase: The Gadsden Purchase (also known as the Treaty of Mesilla) was a 1853 agreement in which the United States acquired about 29,670 square miles (77,000 km²) of land from Mexico for $10 million. This southern strip of present-day Arizona and New Mexico helped resolve lingering border disputes from the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and facilitated the construction of a southern transcontinental railroad route."

"Absolutely excellent explanation of how the US acquired the west from Mexico. I’m a high school history teacher and my students are always shocked when I tell them this story. And they love the idea that we won the War and rather just take what we want like most conquering countries we payed our enemies for the land we wanted. That just doesn’t happen in history."

"Teacher with a degree in history here... I'm all in on the idea that anyone that says the US stole Mexico needs to sit down and shut up, and maybe learn a few things about world history. As a teacher..I can ABSOLUTELY address the fact that our American story is often filled with terrible acts, underhanded deals, and all the other negative things that people want to complain about, like racism or greedy capitalism, mistreatment of groups both indigenous and immigrant, and all the rest. But in the end...the American story is about how we have worked to overcome those things, both here and in other places on this planet!"

"I am a white man living in los angeles and I have heard so much about this land being taken from Mexico. I always ask, "who did the Mexicans take it from?" Almost always they have never heard of the tongva,who were here before the mexicans, and, the tongva told the Spanish missionaries that they took it from the chumash. It was as it always has been and always will be as long as humans want borders and country names"

"Taken from the Comaches not Mexico. But war is war and losing a war means it's not the losing sides land anymore. Throughout history this has been the reality of humankind."