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Imagine growing up in Germany and having your history be whitewashed so you barely know the atrocities your society committed... oh wait! I’m from California! W
by arcanon 5y ago
Imagine growing up in Germany and having your history be whitewashed so you barely know the atrocities your society committed... oh wait! I’m from California! We had our own genocide of the Natives that was sanctioned by the gold rush government. Anyone remember panning for gold in elementary school? Yeah... those were bad times if you weren’t white. Also, the California Genocide was closer in time to the Holocaust than the Holocaust is to today.
Do have to hand it to Eichmann though. Totally different level of scale of atrocity...
Still should probably get a new name for the 49ers football team...
- tptacek 5y agoDebating the genocide of indigenous Americans is explicitly against the rules of AskHistorians.
- AlotOfReading 5y agoMoreover, the contributors regularly discussing topics that touch on native experiences, myself included, generally take every opportunity to highlight the historical realities of those experiences. I can't think of any that deny indigenous genocides and I'd let the mods know if I saw another contributor doing so.