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[–]radicalcentristNational Centrism 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

but Christianity which murdered 100 million Native Americans is socially acceptable?

Source for this?

It reminds me of that retarded figure that claims "Britain stole trillions from India!" when the entire world economy never even had that much money back then.

100 million Natives sounds huge when this is the same race of people who still need White people to fix their drinking water.

[–]Blackbrownfreestuff 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Britain stole trillions from India

Britain didn't steal a single penny from India. India had a chance to defend themvelves and they lost.

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Interestingly there are just as many nasty diseases in colonised countries which could have killed all the Europeans but after the last big plague (1665ish) that didn't really happen. So obviously there are things which could be done to prevent your people being wiped out by illness. Even in the Americans some villages were wiped out just from first contact while others they actually had to hire a guy with obviously infectious smallpox to tour round and give it to people and even then many survived. Likely this was due to lifestyle differences like whether they all lived together in one big building or in separate family units.

[–]Blackbrownfreestuff 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Native Americans had stone age level of technology, science, and government. Their warriors were skilled, but no match for the pale faced tribe's ingenuity. It doesn't matter how well you can shoot a bow if your enemy can build a transcontinental railroad and drive a locomotive through your wigwam village. Natives didn't even have written language. The north american natives were stupid. Aztecs were also stupid, but not as bad. As far as I can tell, northern natives were almost cave men, although chaco canyon astronomy suggest there was some intelligence present at some point.