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Your countrymen are just playing catch-up, on top of what the European colonialists did for centuries. And not just "settlers" and miners acting on their own -
by kafkaesq 9y ago
Your countrymen are just playing catch-up, on top of what the European colonialists did for centuries.
And not just "settlers" and miners acting on their own - but acting on the direct behalf of, and and funded by their local governments:
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/revealing-the-history-of-genocide-against-californias-native-americans http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/revealing-the-history-of-ge...
- darawk 9y agoThey're catching up to where Europe was 200 years ago? Kind of insulting to Brazilians, don't you think?
- kafkaesq 9y agoI actually meant it more in this vein: "Given that the current descent into barbarbarism -- enacted by an outlier minority of their population, in one tiny corner of their country -- is still but a tiny fraction of what the Europeans, Arabs and their local proxies did, and much more as a popular and broadly-supported effort across pretty much the entire globe, across literally tens of generations, from about 500 until about 50 years ago -- as a people and a culture they aren't looking so bad." Barbaric and shameful though it is.