By trivializing the destruction of Native civilizations and enveloping of their lands by Europeans you're distorting the reality and importance of what happened so that you can hand wave the past and "just get on with it" like a good, forward thinking Westerner.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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