tubenet wrote:Bobby still in here arguing like a racist keyboard warrior...and then tries to defend against the genocide of the Native American Indians as if there is any rational way of defending that.
I've seen it all now!
Never in my life did I think I would quote a passage from "Guns, Germs, and Steel", but its author, UCLA professor Jared Diamond discussed the "genocide" myth in the following passages....
"Throughout the Americas, diseases introduced with Europeans spread from tribe to tribe far in advance of the Europeans themselves, killing an estimated 95 percent of the pre-Columbian Native American population. The most populous and highly organized native societies of North America, the Mississippian chiefdoms, disappeared in that way between 1492 and the late 1600's, even before Europeans themselves made their first settlement on the Mississippi River (page 78)....
"The main killers were Old World germs to which Indians had never been exposed, and against which they therefore had neither immune nor genetic resistance. Smallpox, measles, influenza, and typhus rank top among the killers." (page 212).
"As for the most advanced native societies of North America, those of the U.S. Southeast and the Mississippi River system, their destruction was accomplished largely by germs alone, introduced by early European explorers and advancing ahead of them" (page 374)
Genocide? Continue to conflate conquest, migration patterns and epidemiology (something all ethnic groups have been subject to) with genocide. You just give my stances credence while making yourself look like a fuckin' goofball.
Racist? You ever have shotgun crips amd NHp bloods at your home on good terms? I have.
