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"when the buffalo herds died off" -- when they were slaughtered almost to extinction, in large part to decimate the Indians who relied on them for food. Check
by Frondo 8y ago
"when the buffalo herds died off" -- when they were slaughtered almost to extinction, in large part to decimate the Indians who relied on them for food.
Check out the size of this pile of buffalo skulls, to get a sense of the scale of destruction we did:
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/bison-skulls-pile-used-fertilizer-1870/ https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/bison-skulls-pile-used-fert...
- stukh 8y agoI didn’t mean to give the impression that the herds died off naturally or died off due to hunting by Native Americans.
- deadmetheny 8y ago>we I did nothing of the sort, thank you very much.
- titzer 8y agoSee this a lot. Well if you really take it as a personal affront that many frontiersmen did this...please also refrain from taking credit for any collective positive accomplishment of humanity, like the US constitution, ending slavery, or more generally Science, computers, jeans, or bubble gum. If you wanna stick to the things that you personally did, by all means.
- deadmetheny 8y agoWhy would I claim a hand in the creation of any of that? Using things others have built is not 'taking credit'. It's perfectly possible to acknowledge the evils of our ancestors without having to personally feel bad for it because none of us did it and have no reason to feel guilt for it. Kindly fuck off with your guilt complex.
- titzer 8y ago> Kindly fuck off with your guilt complex. This just not what anyone wants to see here at HN. No one personally attacked you, yet you feel compelled to spew anger. That's just not our culture. There are other places for shitposting.
- Frondo 8y ago"Kindly fuck off with your guilt complex." Ah, men, the logical gender, the rational ones, and certainly never given to fits of emotion.