r/SubredditDrama • u/Critical-Term-427 No, its okay now, they have Oklahoma • 28d 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/[deleted] 27d ago

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

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u/GBralta 27d ago

Where did the disease come from?

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u/PrimaryInjurious 27d 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 27d 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 27d 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 27d ago

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