I hate that place
:le-pol-face: "no one wants to talk about it but did u know Indians actually fought wars too, so really they're as bad as us and it's okay we genocide them" I don't need to read the thread to see the only take they ever have on this.
It took 500 years for the Native American population to recover to pre-European contact levels. Like literally only in the last 10-20 years has it finally recovered. But yeah Redditor, if only they assimilated more they would have been fine. Its also fine because the natives would be violent at times, just like it would be fine for the whole of the US to be destroyed due to being violent right?
It's as if the Martians showed up in a flying saucer and said "Yeah, you had a couple wars so this planet is ours now."
Serious question, what is there to be done about it? Like, the US treated Native Americans terribly sure, but like, they also can’t give the land back. There are cities built there now. Massive infrastructure supporting millions of people. It can’t just be like, turned back over. What more can be done besides just like, saying sorry?
Ah well it's true if natives had their land the cities and people there would, of course, immediately vanish or be destroyed. Guess we can just say swwwrrrryy for the genocide. What's that? Natives still exist and could be consulted and talked to about this very question? Hmm I don't know.
This comment is hardly the worst on there but it certainly speaks to an American lack of imagination.
:anglo-burn: imagination is binary. It goes from Doing Nothing to Genocide. Those are the only options.
Like, the US treated Native Americans terribly sure, but like, they also can’t give the land back.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGirt_v._Oklahoma
The Court issued its decision on McGirt as well as a per curiam decision on Sharp following the basis of McGirt on July 9, 2020. The 5–4 majority opinion was written by Justice Neil Gorsuch and joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan, and determined that for purposes of the Major Crimes Act, Congress had failed to disestablish the Indian reservations and thus those lands should be treated as "Indian country". Gorsuch wrote, "Today we are asked whether the land these treaties promised remains an Indian reservation for purposes of federal criminal law. Because Congress has not said otherwise, we hold the government to its word." Gorsuch further assessed that disestablishment was a power only Congress could exercise, affirmed by Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock.
:reddit-logo: really thinks the people who didn’t understand that it was a bad idea to drink from the same water that they dumped their shit in constituted the most advanced civilization in history
"human history is just a murderous game of musical chairs and we just happened to be sitting here when the music stopped, nothing to be done now i guess. them's the breaks" -settler-colonial apologists
Im not stepping into this but i feel like education shouldn't be considered a culture. STEAM/STEM isn't an american invention.
L-o-fucking-L. This perfectly encapsulates the Western obsession with the IQ score, and their inability to recognize its flaws
