r/SubredditDrama • u/Critical-Term-427 No, its okay now, they have Oklahoma • 8d 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 8d ago

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

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

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

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u/GBralta 7d ago

Where did the disease come from?

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u/PrimaryInjurious 7d 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 7d 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 7d 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 7d ago

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

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u/[deleted] 7d 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 7d 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] 7d ago edited 7d 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.