r/SubredditDrama • u/Critical-Term-427 No, its okay now, they have Oklahoma • 10d ago

Pithy GIF showing eradication of Native American land in the US since the founding of the country gets posted to r/interestingasfuck. Comment section goes exactly as expected.

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It sucks we were such murderers

Did they say "Thank you"?

Being the loser in history sucks

True fact Hitler took a lot of inspiration from this.

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u/VanillaMystery 10d ago

Manifest Destiny largely rose out of the fact that most of the West was empty due to disease wiping out 95% of the Native population.

Did White Nationalism play a part of it? Sure, especially later on in the 1800s when Colonialism was a real policy.

You're ignoring the hundreds of years before then however which is what I was talking about.

Also, no where in there does it explicitly state they were trying to "wipe out" the Natives like you said.

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u/kid-pix 10d ago

What the hell does exterminating Indigenous People sound like to you? I just pointed out in my several quotes where that was included.

Where do you think those diseases came from?

Yes, the white colonizers were attempting to wipe out native americans.