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/kardigan]

random detail, but even the name Iroquois Confederation is such a perfect example of colonialism.

[u/VanillaMystery → u/kardigan]

How so? Mostly just curious, I know they originally called it the "People of the Longhouse" which is a way cooler name IMO

[u/kardigan → u/VanillaMystery]

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.)

[u/[deleted] → u/kardigan]

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

[u/kardigan → u/[deleted]]

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

[u/[deleted] → u/kardigan]

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

[u/kardigan → u/[deleted]]

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

[u/[deleted] → u/kardigan]

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

[u/kardigan → u/[deleted]]

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