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[–]Alienhunter糞大名[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

European colonies did shake up the balance of power and could be said to be a contributing factor that allowed the genocide to happen I suppose. But most of the people pushing these ideas hold onto the noble savage fallacy where the Africans were supposedly peaceful tribal kumbaya types who didn't know about war until the white man taught them.

[–]BellaBlue 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

But you see, now the Noble Savage fallacy is woke and acceptable if it can be used to blame White Europeans 😉

The video I watched boiled it down to "the tribes didn't realize they were different until the Europeans came and taught them tall people are superior."

[–]Alienhunter糞大名[S] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Lol. It all comes across as insufferably racist. It's like "hurr Durr these Africans were too stupid to realize height was a thing until the Europeans came".