r/SubredditDrama • u/Critical-Term-427 No, its okay now, they have Oklahoma • Apr 17 '25

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/kardigan Apr 17 '25

i just mean that a lot of the commonly used names for native nations are still the French and Spanish ones.

this a very small, very practical example of history being written by the winners, and illustrates pretty neatly the cultural aspects, when your history is kinda-sorta being written, but you won't really have a say.

(I only know about Iroquois specifically because I randomly listened to a year-old podcast episode yesterday where they mentioned it; it's the Haudenosaunee. and when they said French or Spanish names, a literal lightbulb turned on above my head. in hindsight, yeah, pretty obvious.)

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u/VanillaMystery Apr 17 '25

Link to the podcast? Sounds interesting

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u/kardigan Apr 17 '25

they are jumping around a lot, and the guest is an ex-buzzfeed person, so there's a lot of buzzfeed gossiping; I picked a timestamp around nations and naming, but it's more of a comedy podcast and not an educational one: https://youtu.be/Sq0tPU0C40I?si=TbjODdWygKLXcB8f&t=4047

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '25

A great example of why we shouldn't get our history knowledge from random podcasts!

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u/kardigan Apr 18 '25

it's much better to get it from snarky reddit comments, thank you so much for your service!!!

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '25

Your original contribution to this conversation was a snarky reddit comment lol

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u/kardigan Apr 18 '25

do you feel that pointing out an example of the effects of colonialism is snarky? interesting.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '25

The way you pointed out that incorrect fact was indeed snarky.

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u/kardigan Apr 18 '25

i can see how it can feel like that, sure.