> the entire premise is based on the notion that the nations before the US were somehow just and the US was not No, it’s not. It’s based on the premise that ma

> the entire premise is based on the notion that the nations before the US were somehow just and the US was not No, it’s not. It’s based on the premise that massacres and the legislative dispossession of native lands is wrong. I don’t see why this is a controversial stance > despite the fact that they were all built in just as much violence and conquering This is a false equivalency. There was never a single group which built a transcontinental empire, killing, displacing, and ultimately forcing assimilation upon all other groups using organized state violence, all in a few hundred years. The tribal violence in some regions on North America just isn’t the same thing and doesn’t justify the genocide. Even if it was the same thing, it still doesn’t justify genocide. Justifying genocide with genocide doesn’t really make much sense to me