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[–] LifeInMultipleChoice 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

As natives already had people who wore face paint.. the clothes which are mostly absent from the photo would have likely been more startling than the face.

Not sure about that time period, but white meant peace when it came to face paint as well, so this would could across as non-threatening possibly. Surely wearing a symbol of peace and shooting someone could send mixed messages though.

[–] Anticorp 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

They didn't come off the ships with guns blazing. They got along for a time, until the colonists started taking things the natives didn't want them to take, like everything they set their eyes upon.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice 3 points 3 months ago

That's not what I read, I read they came off ar-15s blazing and eagles dropping tanks they picked up off air craft carriers. In 1492 of course.

Grenade launchers full of small pox and malaria.