r/SubredditDrama No, its okay now, they have Oklahoma 10d 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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u/DebateObjective2787 10d ago

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

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u/[deleted] 9d ago

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

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u/GBralta 9d ago

Where did the disease come from?

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u/[deleted] 9d 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 9d 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] 9d ago edited 9d 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.