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originally posted by: hounddoghowlie
a reply to: AgentShillington
well i lied, but this the last one.
see how your baiting mind works, you couldn't surprise me by not replying, had to take another shot at calling me a racist. just like i called it.
i'm done with you.
originally posted by: skunkape23
The monkeys were here first.
I grant amnesty to all higher primates on this planet.
originally posted by: Shamrock6
a reply to: amazing
Did native Americans have national borders? And laws pertaining to immigrants and immigration?
originally posted by: Shamrock6
a reply to: amazing
"We" didn't do anything.
originally posted by: Shamrock6
a reply to: amazing
"We" didn't do anything.
originally posted by: AgentShillington
originally posted by: Shamrock6
a reply to: amazing
"We" didn't do anything.
Oh you.
en.wikipedia.org...
originally posted by: Shamrock6
a reply to: amazing
Maybe yours did, mine didn't do anything.
Native Americans were warring before any "white people" got here. The Iroquois wiped out entire tribes in pursuit of fur. Rape, pillage, plunder, and kidnapping were all fairly common among tribes. I don't see them exchanging apology letters 300 years later.
I have no problem acknowledging Native Americans got kicked off their land and hunted down and killed off. It happened. But we" didn't take part in it.
originally posted by: TWA0918
a reply to: amazing
There are ways of going to a different country other than illegally if your current situation is undesirable...
And you say isolated prison camps... Reservations are sovereign territory and we control nothing that happens there. They are free to come and go as they please, and in many cases live relatively happy lives. We took the land from them by force. The same way they came to settle there. American tribes fought constant wars over territory and resources with each other. The difference is we let the losers keep some of the spoils. I have Native American blood running through my veins, and I know that many things that happened back in the beginning of our nation was questionably immoral. On both sides of the border. But to be honest I wouldn't have it any other way. With the technology and infrastructure the natives had they were going to get invaded and replaced by SOME group at some point. Genocide is a word normally reserved for mass murder. But a mass pandemic of smallpox is not murder. In this same logic the bubonic plague was genocide upon the Europeans by way of Asia or the middle east. Not sure exactly where that came from. But regardless the U.S. government did not round up anyone and systematically exterminate them. In fact the only ethnic group to have ever been put in any form of detention camps is the Japanese. Oddly enough they don't bring that up every time they someone is crying or comparing about injustice. And this was much more recent than the conquest of North America or slavery.
originally posted by: Shamrock6
originally posted by: AgentShillington
originally posted by: Shamrock6
a reply to: amazing
"We" didn't do anything.
Oh you.
en.wikipedia.org...
Eh....cool!