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faramir77 posted...

THEGODDAMNBATMA posted...

Taily_Po posted...

Yes, I'm concerned by the anti-semites who want to see Israel gone, including some prominent congresswomen.

just because you disagree with Israel doesn't make you an anti-semite. That's like saying you're anti-American if you think it's fucked up that we performed near genocide on Native Americans to take the land.

"Near" genocide? European colonization of the Americas was indisputably a full blown genocide, especially in the USA.

Canada wasn't as cruel as the USA with its native peoples but even that still qualifies as a genocide.

Don't sell Canada short, you guys were pretty fucking horrible to the native population as well. Canada also took kids from their parents for re-education camps. It still had forced roundups and reservation systems. Granted, oftentimes the biggest death tolls were from European diseases, most of which happened naturally.

As for the "full blown genocide claim," that genocide is as real today as it was then. Native Americans are still being poisoned by Europeans who sell them alcohol to destroy their communities, their reservations are continually encroached upon, tribal law is widely disrespected, and Native children are being stolen by the government through CPS and other agencies. That's not even going into the fact that the LBJ administration had government doctors sterilizing Native American women, which greatly curtailed several generations of Native American children.
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