These continents were already tamed by the indigenous inhabitants. And had been for tens of thousands of years.
Over 80% of the Native Americans were dead by diseases brought over by Columbus’ crew long before the Pilgrims arrived in North America. The Native Americans suffered an apocalyptic catastrophe that made the European Plague look like a bad cold season. This was not done on purpose but it was inevitable that it would have happened eventually.
So what we had here was a Post-Apocalyptic world being resettled by a technologically more advanced civilization. Anthropologically speaking, there was no other outcome possible but what occurred, not on the grander scale of it, anyway. That a bunch of political and religious refugees turned a culturally devastated land into the greatest bastion for freedom, self-rule, and scientific advancement this planet has ever seen is nothing to be sorry for.
Smallpox blankets
The effort to eradicate bison specifically to starve the Sioux
The trail of tears
Residential schools
Bounties for scalped Native Americans in Pennsylvania
The multiple broken treaties to respect Native Land
Please dont fucking act like Native genocide was some kind of unfortunate accident. It was a series of deliberate, violent acts that took advantage of the aftermath of the plagues Europeans brought with them.
“Refugees”
i love how white people like to act like they weren’t dying from dysentery and dumb as shit before they met us indigenous peoples. u fuckers couldn’t bathe your ass properly and u want to tell me u helped us “advance technologically?” we already had advanced structures and a method of doing things before u came here and infected us and assimilated our people. kindly shut the fuck up.
literally yes. The Spanish brought technology (literally every little aspect of them. Their clothes, their weapons, their ideologies, their boats…) and yes, the indigenous had already technology, but it wasn’t as modern as the one that the Spanish brought. Yes, the spanish did conquer, impulse catholicism, bla bla bla everything everybody knows. But if it wasn’t of the spanish, we couldn’t have the modern society we have today. Also this is basic history??
This is it. This is why people of color cannot stand white people.
Your ancestors end civilizations. Erase an entire people. Like literally kill off an entire demographic and have the unmitigated audacity to say that well we are better off because look what we got now.
That is the fucking problem. You are weighing a civilization that was stolen from the world against the society that was built off their eradication and you frame as a good thing? You treat it as if it was necessary for all that we have now? And you get to decide that after the fact after you erased their potential? You look at what we have now and say that it is better than the possibilities that were never realized? And somehow that is rational to you? As if that makes sense? You are a white supremacist.
White people funnelled the whole world in one ideology. Erased diversity and lifestyles in the name of ‘progress’ and productivity. Inserted a dynamic of self vs other in which cost benefit analysis weighs lives against currency. Your worth is how much you contribute on a material basis against you ability, sanity, and sociology.
And we are killing ourselves in the name of their god, Progress. The arrogance and temerity of white supremacists to even think genocide in the name of modern society is proof because of what we have now?
Fuck you, you fucking Nazi.
ALL. OF. THIS!
Also Trump is speaking to his white supremacists/nationalist base. When it comes to this stuff, he knows EXACTLY what he’s doing.
