Like it or not the history of the world is full of people that were conquered by a stronger group. A simple study of world history will show one group conquering another. Heck, the history of North and South America is full of tribal groups conquering and taking over before Europeans arrived. I’ve heard hand wringing over the British conquering Shaka Zulu, but he was “colonizing” the local tribes and from what I hear was very cruel.
All this to say that I’m so tired of being ashamed of history. It is what it is. You don’t like it go find the perfect country
American history alone is basically an infinite list of Natives warring and stealing from each other so much that by the time the Europeans arrived the losing tribes were rushing to enlist their help to fucking destroy the bigger ones.
Any tribe you can name is only that way because they were imperialist conquerors who absolutely did worse things to other Indians than most Americans ever did. They didn't invent scalping and other horrors when the Wild West came around, that had plenty history.
The Brits allowed the River Raisin massacre (War of 1812) to happen because their injun allies threatened to take their manpower elsewhere if they weren't allowed to do whatever they wanted ... which included scalping, and killing/enslaving little kids.
Like it or not the history of the world is full of people that were conquered by a stronger group. A simple study of world history will show one group conquering another. Heck, the history of North and South America is full of tribal groups conquering and taking over before Europeans arrived. I’ve heard hand wringing over the British conquering Shaka Zulu, but he was “colonizing” the local tribes and from what I hear was very cruel.
All this to say that I’m so tired of being ashamed of history. It is what it is. You don’t like it go find the perfect country
American history alone is basically an infinite list of Natives warring and stealing from each other so much that by the time the Europeans arrived the losing tribes were rushing to enlist their help to fucking destroy the bigger ones.
Any tribe you can name is only that way because they were imperialist conquerors who absolutely did worse things to other Indians than most Americans ever did. They didn't invent scalping and other horrors when the Wild West came around, that had plenty history.
The Brits allowed the River Raisin massacre (War of 1812) to happen because their injun allies threatened to take their manpower elsewhere if they weren't allowed to do whatever they wanted ... which included scalping, and killing/enslaving little kids.