I know this will get heavily down voted…
But as if they didn’t kill each other with bows, disease and in the name of religion? This seems pretty universal in history. Idk.
There’s really worlds of difference between these things. Of course, humans fight and kill each other, but what colonists did is far different than what indigenous people did to one another.
The settlers were and are devoted to the eradication of a people. Much of their culture, language, and achievements were outright destroyed in the name of God and racial superiority. This is not something that you can accuse indigenous people of. Scientific racism is an invention of Europe. Capitalism, too, emerged out of the historical context of Europe which requires colonists to support. These are not universal human traits.
Settlers took the names and languages and children and tried to “assimilate” them (read: erase). To this day, these people are being strangled out of existence. There are people here on Lemmy who live on reservations and discuss the struggle to this day.
I’m responding to you in good faith here, but to be honest, I don’t think there’s any other way to read this than justification for genocide because “they would have done the same.” That’s not a grounded claim. You should reflect on why your knee jerk reaction is to respond this way and consider if you’d rather stand with the colonizers or the colonized.
I know this will get heavily down voted… But as if they didn’t kill each other with bows, disease and in the name of religion? This seems pretty universal in history. Idk.
There’s really worlds of difference between these things. Of course, humans fight and kill each other, but what colonists did is far different than what indigenous people did to one another.
The settlers were and are devoted to the eradication of a people. Much of their culture, language, and achievements were outright destroyed in the name of God and racial superiority. This is not something that you can accuse indigenous people of. Scientific racism is an invention of Europe. Capitalism, too, emerged out of the historical context of Europe which requires colonists to support. These are not universal human traits.
Settlers took the names and languages and children and tried to “assimilate” them (read: erase). To this day, these people are being strangled out of existence. There are people here on Lemmy who live on reservations and discuss the struggle to this day.
I’m responding to you in good faith here, but to be honest, I don’t think there’s any other way to read this than justification for genocide because “they would have done the same.” That’s not a grounded claim. You should reflect on why your knee jerk reaction is to respond this way and consider if you’d rather stand with the colonizers or the colonized.