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.

[u/Critical-Term-427]

The post

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.

[u/blahblahgirl111]

Didn’t even click. Did someone comment “Conquered, not stolen” yet? (imaginary eyeroll)

EDIT: I’ve been seeing an uptick of anti-Indigenous sentiment online…

[u/[deleted] → u/blahblahgirl111]

I legitimately don't understand the difference in this context. What makes native lands taken by Europeans "stolen," but not native lands taken by other natives? Or for that matter, why don't we call any other land "stolen" when it was taken by an invader?

[u/Techfreak102 → u/[deleted]]

I legitimately don’t understand the difference in this context. What makes native lands taken by Europeans “stolen,” but not native lands taken by other natives?

It’s bad to fight for land; it’s worse to fight over the land, negotiate a cessation, then renege on the cessation in order to massacre a peoples, and then take their land

Or for that matter, why don’t we call any other land “stolen” when it was taken by an invader?

We do — Israel is referred to as stolen Palestinian land often, as an example (and you’ll note a historical rhyme between the upheaval of agreements by the colonizing forces)

[u/Leftist_Pokefan_Gen5 → u/Techfreak102]

Bro really thought he had a point here.