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Counterpoint: New World history is/was just as rich and valuable; it was just systematically erased by one of the largest genocides in history spanning from pol

Counterpoint: New World history is/was just as rich and valuable; it was just systematically erased by one of the largest genocides in history spanning from pole to pole.

dilyevsky 4y ago
They had 10% of world population at the time conquest began so just by that metric nah
- munificent 4y ago
  What level of population is required for one's culture to be considered interesting or worth preserving?
  - dilyevsky 4y ago
    Yikes, you always twist someone’s words like that in a discourse? All I said the history is not as rich which makes sense given there was like 10x fewer people here on a huge territory. But also North American tribes didnt even have much written down unlike the South American civilizations
    - munificent 4y ago
      You literally said that by the metric of population, their history was not as rich. I don't see how that's twisting your words at all. My point is that Native Americans do have just as rich and interesting a history as European countries. It was just largely deliberately erased by European settlers.
- fwip 4y ago
  What other genocides do you know of that killed more than 10% of the world population?
  - dilyevsky 4y ago
    1. That’s not my point 2. You should brush up on world history before trying to zing others https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_under_the_Mongol_Empire https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_under_the_Mongol...
    - fwip 4y ago
      It wasn't an attempted zing, I was curious. So then, the genocide of the indigenous peoples of the Americas also would rank as "some of the most deadly acts of mass killing in human history."
      - dilyevsky 4y ago
        Ok apologies for anti-zing then. > So then, the genocide of the indigenous peoples of the Americas also would rank as "some of the most deadly acts of mass killing in human history." I agree. That kind of strengthens my point - I wouldn’t want to associate my heritage with that sort of thing (unless you’re in Mongolia where GK is still considered a god-like figure by many)

Counterpoint: New World history is/was just as rich and valuable; it was just systematically erased by one of the largest genocides in history spanning from pole to pole.

dilyevsky 4y ago

They had 10% of world population at the time conquest began so just by that metric nah

munificent 4y ago
What level of population is required for one's culture to be considered interesting or worth preserving?
- dilyevsky 4y ago
  Yikes, you always twist someone’s words like that in a discourse? All I said the history is not as rich which makes sense given there was like 10x fewer people here on a huge territory. But also North American tribes didnt even have much written down unlike the South American civilizations
  - munificent 4y ago
    You literally said that by the metric of population, their history was not as rich. I don't see how that's twisting your words at all. My point is that Native Americans do have just as rich and interesting a history as European countries. It was just largely deliberately erased by European settlers.
fwip 4y ago
What other genocides do you know of that killed more than 10% of the world population?
- dilyevsky 4y ago
  1. That’s not my point 2. You should brush up on world history before trying to zing others https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_under_the_Mongol_Empire https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_under_the_Mongol...
  - fwip 4y ago
    It wasn't an attempted zing, I was curious. So then, the genocide of the indigenous peoples of the Americas also would rank as "some of the most deadly acts of mass killing in human history."
    - dilyevsky 4y ago
      Ok apologies for anti-zing then. > So then, the genocide of the indigenous peoples of the Americas also would rank as "some of the most deadly acts of mass killing in human history." I agree. That kind of strengthens my point - I wouldn’t want to associate my heritage with that sort of thing (unless you’re in Mongolia where GK is still considered a god-like figure by many)