The trouble is in school they tend to gloss over the atrocities the Indians committed against their own. Maybe things have changed since I was in school in the 90's, but I had to learn about the stuff I just mentioned in college and from documentaries.
This is the problem with people because some would feel if you discuss those things it is like saying "they deserved what they got".
Originally posted by Surtur
The trouble is in school they tend to gloss over the atrocities the Indians committed against their own. Maybe things have changed since I was in school in the 90's, but I had to learn about the stuff I just mentioned in college and from documentaries.This is the problem with people because some would feel if you discuss those things it is like saying "they deserved what they got".
Not sure if the Native tribes regularly engaged in genocide-like practices among each other, which is what the US government condoned at one point, iirc.
Sure the Natives had wars over land and resources, but that's not the same thing.
Originally posted by Robtard
Not sure if the Native tribes regularly engaged in genocide-like practices among each other, which is what the US government condoned at one point, iirc.Sure the Natives had wars over land and resources, but that's not the same thing.
But they still enslaved each other, slaughtered each other, stole each others land. Again, this is all glossed over. It doesn't matter if it's not 100% the same thing, what matters is in school I believed the Indians were just these innocent people who got the short end of the stick when in reality it just seems like the bigger of two d-bags won out.
We weren't killing these guys for a laugh...was it not over land and resources?
Originally posted by Surturthis sounds an awful lot like something Bill O'reilly would say... "black people kill other black people everyday, so who cares if the police kill unarmed black people."
I will not say what we did to the Indians was right. I will say we didn't do anything they themselves hadn't done to their own people(stealing land, slaughter, enslavement).
Originally posted by SurturProbably because of the invader issue.
But they still enslaved each other, slaughtered each other, stole each others land. Again, this is all glossed over. It doesn't matter if it's not 100% the same thing, what matters is in school I believed the Indians were just these innocent people who got the short end of the stick when in reality it just seems like the bigger of two d-bags won out.We weren't killing these guys for a laugh...was it not over land and resources?
Otherwise couldn't we use that same reasoning you're using above and say something like "so what about 9/11, Americans have killed Americans before, just look at the US Civil War, seems like the 9/11 terrorist were just the bigger of two dickheads." Yeah?
Originally posted by Robtard👆
Probably because of the invader issue.Otherwise couldn't we use that same reasoning you're using above and say something like "so what about 9/11, Americans have killed Americans before, just look at the US Civil War, seems like the 9/11 terrorist were just the bigger of two dickheads." No?
"who cares about the holocaust, jews killed other jews all the time."
Originally posted by Robtard
Probably because of the invader issue.Otherwise couldn't we use that same reasoning you're using above and say something like "so what about 9/11, Americans have killed Americans before, just look at the US Civil War, seems like the 9/11 terrorist were just the bigger of two dickheads." Yeah?
But it's not really the same thing and you know it. There is this train of thought people have that we came and slaughtered the innocent Indians. We don't have that train of thought with other stuff you've said.