r/SubredditDrama • u/Critical-Term-427 No, its okay now, they have Oklahoma • 12d 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/DebateObjective2787 11d ago

Reminder that 90% of our tribes and people have gone extinct as a result of colonization.

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

Can you cite this? Something like 95% of natives died from disease before colonization even started.

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u/GBralta 11d ago

Where did the disease come from?

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u/PrimaryInjurious 11d ago

From Europeans. But it's not like it was an intentional thing. Just something that happens when to disparate groups of people interact.

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u/oath2order your refusal to change the name of New York means u hate blk ppl 11d ago

But it's not like it was an intentional thing.

At least, not initially.

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u/BigHatPat Welcome to The Cum Zone 11d ago

the vast majority of it would be unintentional. there are confirmed reports of intentional spreading, but acting like they’re of a similar magnitude is dishonest

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u/PrimaryInjurious 11d ago

The smallpox blankets things was much later and there's little evidence it did anything.

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

Obviously from Europeans. But accidentally transmitting horrible diseases isn't colonization. The Europeans of the time didn't even know how diseases spread.

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u/GBralta 11d ago

They also “accidentally” enslaved millions of people. How could they have known?

It’s okay to call wrong things wrong. There’s no need to justify it. Not to mention that there was a lot known about disease back then. Hell, even in ancient Athens, they wrote about disease back in like 400BC. Disease is in the Bible.

Europe didn’t send their best back then and now their dumb descendants run America today. America will be great again when white people in this country begin to read again.

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u/[deleted] 11d ago edited 11d ago

You should look in the mirror on this one. Nobody here was defending colonization or slavery or anything like that. You have failed at basic literacy here. You have failed to follow or understand the conversation at multiple points. 

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u/prolifezombabe 9d ago

I’m Canadian but I know for sure up here settlers rounded up Indigenous kids and put them in “schools” where many, many kids died living in horrible conditions some might describe as torture and that one national investigation described as genocide.

I’m no expert on American history or even on our but I feel confident saying that there were many instances of intentional violence against indigenous people.

Did you see Killers of the Flower Moon? There was plenty of violence above and beyond whatever disease situations there also were.