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KhanJohnny posted...
hockeybub89
A genocide is a genocide. It doesn't require a legal definition and no one is suggesting taking long dead corpses to trial
There was no genocidal policy legally or in reality.
There were a few events that were genocidal and more than a few white people acted in a genocidal manner with a genocidal intent against the natives. But there was no federal policy calling for the genocide of Native Americans.
I mean there's two possibilities here. We knew what would happen and did it anyway or we accidentally almost eradicated a native population. So genocide or a really stupid tragedy. We didn't exactly hold anyone accountable for those "isolated genocidal events" within that forced relocation or that President Jackson gave a fuck.
Third possibility:
There was a huge, mostly accidental tragedy which killed the vast majority of Native Americans coupled with a malevolent campaign of colonization and oppression that capitalized on the demographic disaster caused by the native Americans lack of immunity to Eurasian diseases.
We don't have to make what happened any cleaner by denying the atrocities that most certainly occurred nor hyperbolize by throwing out genocide like a buzzword.
So...genocide.
"It wasn't genocide! It was
some genocide combined with accidentally killing the other natives and not feeling particularly bad about it! Get it right!"
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