I don’t actually want to say this but the USA was founded on genocide. It literally killed the native americans to take their land, same as hitler attempted to do with the polish people.
I think it’s more that we are way into blissful ignorance in this country.
If you polled the citizens to ask whether America was founded/discovered by European explorers, the vast majority would agree. But of course, even if 80% or 90% get it right that still means tens of millions got it wrong.
But if you polled the citizens to ask whether US territory was simply discovered or stolen from existing inhabitants by murdering/genociding them, I bet you would flip the numbers.
I don’t actually want to say this but the USA was founded on genocide. It literally killed the native americans to take their land, same as hitler attempted to do with the polish people.
Hitler’s whole plan was modeled after American genocide, Manifest Destiny, and eugenics.
Eugenics in America predates the third Reich.
Generally something would need to exist for it to be used as a model in another thing, yes
It was also modeled on our auto industry and car culture.
Also Jim Crow laws
We are the big brother to Nazism. The USA been playing that good fascist bad fascist game for a long time now.
“That wasn’t genocide, it was an upgrade. They had no civilization. We rehabbed those savages.” –my grandfather, probably.
If you sell them guns as you’re killing them, you get to call it a war and not genocide.
And…? Oh that was your whole point? Oh.
Yeah dude, we fucking know.
That doesn’t mean we should keep doing it.
i see this sentiment a lot, and i just wonder if there are some people unaware that America was colonized by europeans
I think it’s more that we are way into blissful ignorance in this country.
If you polled the citizens to ask whether America was founded/discovered by European explorers, the vast majority would agree. But of course, even if 80% or 90% get it right that still means tens of millions got it wrong.
But if you polled the citizens to ask whether US territory was simply discovered or stolen from existing inhabitants by murdering/genociding them, I bet you would flip the numbers.
OK so we should just let them keep doing it then