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[–] Warl0k3 71 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

The only reason the US isn't solidly in the first camp is because they really nailed the genocide over here. Just look at, say, this meme for an example of how they were so effective people don't even remember it happened to us.

[–] Wogi 32 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Less it happened to us, and more we were still calling ourselves British when we started doing it to the people that weren't.

[–] Warl0k3 40 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

(oh sorry, I'm native (Iroquois) and I realize now that that 'us' in my first comment was not at all clear about that)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

George Washington burned down the villages of native tribes that fought for the US in the revolution...

[–] PugJesus 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Source?

Not of Washington's conflict with Native Americans, that he burned down the villages of native tribes that fought for the US in the Revolutionary War.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] PugJesus 6 points 6 days ago

https://www.oneidaindiannation.com/oneidas-and-the-birth-of-the-u-s/

That doesn't say anything about the Oneidas being attacked by the Revolutionaries during the Revolutionary War.