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by lisasays 1086 days ago
Russian colonists

Given that nearly every place in Europe is currently being sat on by people who kicked some other group out of there, way back when -- even Riga itself was part of territory inhabited by Finno-Ugric peoples before becoming basically a German (Hanseatic) settlement for 600+ years -- not to mention the genetic "colonist" guilt inherited by virtually everyone in the US/CAN/UK/AUS/NZ of European ancestry, by your calculus --

Let's just say your putting yourself on some very thin ice, out there, in bandying about pejoratives like this.