• @Jomega
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    141 year ago

    They gave them blankets with smallpox. “Fair fight” my ass.

    • @LemmysMum
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      41 year ago

      No such thing as a fair fight, ever. Fighting fair is called sport. Fighting is fighting, you win or you die. Winners win, losers die. Would we like that some of the losers weren’t killed? Sure, but you can’t bring back the dead. History will continue, and you will never see an Native American owned and run America, no matter how idealistic that might feel, because they are already culturally dead. Native Americans are 4x4 driving casino operators now, they became Americans.

        • @LemmysMum
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          51 year ago

          Actually I’m a democratic socialist, I don’t condone those actions, but that doesn’t change reality.

          Don’t let your idealisms and ego get in the way of understanding the truth.

          • Catradora-Stalinism☭
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            -91 year ago

            I don’t care what you say you are, your opinions are what I judge

            defend fascism and colonialism, your are a fascist colonizer

            idealism? I actually know the contents of this conflict, while you seem to be blinded by “omg resisting fascism is basically fascism”

            the only socialist you are is the national socialist

            • @LemmysMum
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              51 year ago

              Which opinion do you disagree with? Be specific. Because I have a hunch you’re about at close to comprehension as the sun is to earth.

              • Catradora-Stalinism☭
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                -91 year ago

                you advocate for assimilation, a form of cultural genocide

                they didn’t fucking become americans, they still exist, I work with them. America is still killing them.

                Every american is a settler that deserves to be dragged back to europe, and you know it

                • @LemmysMum
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                  1 year ago

                  you advocate for assimilation, a form of cultural genocide

                  No I didn’t. Quote me where you believe I did. I said assimilation happened, I didn’t support or advocate for it. Show me which words I used in approval. Bet you can’t.

                  • Catradora-Stalinism☭
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                    -71 year ago

                    History will continue, and you will never see an Native American owned and run America, no matter how idealistic that might feel, because they are already culturally dead. Native Americans are 4x4 driving casino operators now, they became Americans.

                    condemning anti colonialism as idealistic because we finished the genocide this time is actually bad if you didn’t know

    • R0cket_M00se
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      21 year ago

      This is just historically inaccurate, while smallpox blankets were give out in a couple cases most of their population died out from new European diseases across the continent before we’d ever made contact. They spread through the environment and killed millions to the West coast before we even knew what had happened.

      Add to that the fact that we decided what the value of our goods were worth in their financial system, and technology was sold to certain tribes and not others (keeping in mind that colonists weren’t coming into a unified system but integrating into a complex ecosocial dynamic where we gave advantages to specific groups) there was no way in hell they’d have a fair fight.

      The truth is, the game was rigged from the start.