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Indigenous people did not found America in any meaningful sense of the word. I’m not saying they weren’t royally fucked out of land and labor. But lets not inve
by dcow 4y ago
Indigenous people did not found America in any meaningful sense of the word. I’m not saying they weren’t royally fucked out of land and labor. But lets not invent nonsense because we can’t recognize the great achievement of the founding fathers (many of whom were against slavery btw).
- ashwagary 4y ago>Indigenous people did not found America in any meaningful sense of the word. Thats your opinion. The descendants of the people we are discussing say they did build the foundation and because their family investment of intellectual and sweat equity is sizable (conservative estimates are ~2 trillion hours of stolen labor) their case is not easy to dismiss.