• gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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    17 hours ago

    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.

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      8 hours ago

      i see this sentiment a lot, and i just wonder if there are some people unaware that America was colonized by europeans

      • Zink@programming.dev
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        3 hours ago

        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.

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      16 hours ago

      “That wasn’t genocide, it was an upgrade. They had no civilization. We rehabbed those savages.” –my grandfather, probably.