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Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre
I don't need to be the victim to be upset by it, it's called empathy.
Just because you don't give a **** doesn't mean we're faking it.
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If what you said was derived out of empathy, you wouldn't have leapt to an accusation of bigotry after reading a normal question like what I asked. What you are doing is what a feminist would call "mansplaining". You aren't a Native American in 2020 America. How would you know what they are thinking and feeling at this particular point in time? Nobody here is advocating for Native American genocide.
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Originally Posted by jwb
I'm just saying it's an overrated genocide
It was inevitable someone was eventually gonna find this place. It's inevitable they would bring urban diseases with them.
All the excessive "omg America is the worst country ever" self flagellation is just forced and corny.
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I also think it was inevitable, though the specifics would have changed depending on what country made the most inroads. There is also a branch of history somewhere out there in the great macroverse where the Aztecs simply continued expanding their empire north and west, eventually enslaving and/or wiping out all of the other tribes in the continental U.S. within a century or so. If the conquistadors, Vikings, some African country, whatever had come to the New World at that point, there would have been one hell of a war.