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manifest destiny

noun as in expansionist doctrine

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There is no gratitude here, except for the white founders who bequeathed this nation to their biological descendants by achieving its manifest destiny and taking it.

From Slate

The Department of Homeland Security keeps posting images and artwork that celebrate Manifest Destiny — the idea that white people, and white people alone, saved this savage continent.

Manifest Destiny and Western Expansion did not involve land theft and the genocide of First Nations peoples.

From Salon

But the most overtly white nationalist post came on July 23, when the DHS shared a painting from 19th-century artist John Gast featuring a white-robed woman floating over a U.S. landscape, an embodiment of the concept of manifest destiny, a policy used to justify the genocide of Native Americans.

From Slate

It really goes back to individuals who saw manifest destiny.

From Slate

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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