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The view that you're trying to correct generally requires a bit more knowledge than the one pushed by an average person's education. Simply teaching, by defaul
by allemagne 10y ago
The view that you're trying to correct generally requires a bit more knowledge than the one pushed by an average person's education.
Simply teaching, by default, that there was an apocalyptic plague among Native Americans unknowingly caused by Europeans would go a long way towards balancing the narrative.
- cardiffspaceman 10y agoThis apocalyptic plague story is well-known in the US if we go by my personal observation. I don't think it even takes much education to have heard this. I found a few links that indicate the idea of a smallpox plague is spun to say that the results or intent of European activity were not genocide.
- mzw_mzw 10y agoEvery Columbus Day, Americans are buried under an avalanche of articles and social media posts about how diseases brought by the Europeans wiped out the natives. Trust me, we know. This narrative you worry about was more than balanced decades ago.