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> the largest ethnic cleansing in the last 500 years (that of North America It’s my understanding that almost all deaths of the original people in America was
by l33t7332273 3y ago
> the largest ethnic cleansing in the last 500 years (that of North America
It’s my understanding that almost all deaths of the original people in America was due to disease that was not understood well enough to be weaponized.
I don’t see how the size of the deliberate ethnic cleansing that did take place can be greater than other far larger genocides.
- pphysch 3y agoIf you violently displace entire peoples from their land and food supply, and then they die "nonviolently" of poverty/disease a short time later, you are still to blame. That's clearly ethnic cleansing, even if it may fall short of genocide.
- l33t7332273 3y agoI think the disease spread and killed many far before the violent displacement took place. Many natives were already dead by the 1700’s.