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Does anyone think what was done to Native Americans was just?
by afandian 5y ago
Does anyone think what was done to Native Americans was just?
- VictorPath 5y agowas?
- lucasmullens 5y agoIt's okay to talk about the past even if things still exist in the present.
- bseidensticker 5y agoSure but using the past tense implies that the thing does not happen anymore. That's why the Mitch Hedberg bit is funny (I used to do drugs... I still do but I used to, too) is humorous. It subverts your expectation that the thing you "used to do" is a thing you no longer do. The US used to do horrible things to Natives... it still does but it used to, too.
- rayiner 5y agoNot “just” but I suspect most people in the world are indifferent to a more technologically advanced civilization displacing a less technologically advanced one. It’s how most of the world got to be the way it is and most people don’t really think about it too much. In Bangladesh we have the hill people, which we have treated similarly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chittagong_Hill_Tracts_conflict https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chittagong_Hill_Tracts_conflic.... People are pretty blase about it when it comes up.
- selimthegrim 5y agoI'm assuming it didn't help that Raja Tridiv Roy supported Pakistan in 1971.