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I'm not in the habit of reading a long, hard to follow essay (because yes, it is both of those things contrary to your assertion otherwise) to see if OP is going to at any point defend the incorrect foundation of his argument stated in the first paragraph. You say that the entire thing is OP developing that thesis, but in no way is it clear that his thesis is the very claim "it's a lie that America is a nation of immigrants". To me, it read as though he was taking that claim for granted and building an argument based upon that very unproven claim as if we all accepted it.
You can fuck right off with the smug statements like this. I am neither disgusted nor injured by OP's poorly written argument. I didn't even reply to OP, in fact. What I have taken exception to is you coming in here, arrogantly telling TheDag "well you obviously didn't bother to engage with the post" in response to his quite reasonable criticism of it.
The OP is a poorly written argument. Either it's poorly written because it attempts to take a controversial position as given, or it's poorly written because it fails to make clear that the controversial position is the thesis which will be addressed. It's not a question of reading comprehension, it's not a question of failure to engage, it is simply a badly written argument. Stop blaming the people pushing back on it as if it's somehow their fault.
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