I find it kinda funny when the liberals do the land acknowledgement thing and they'll name numerous tribes. And half of the named tribes are extinct because the people who conquered them genocided them.
It’s because Europeans/whites were the only race that felt bad about it, or at the very least tried to be compassionate about it. It was a mistake. As was the 19th Amendment that allowed women to vote based on those feelings.
We're such a superior people that it only matters when we massacre your people out of existence. The petty squabbles of the tribesmen are immaterial compared to when we take to the field.
In a way, it's a rather "racist" perception on the part of leftists. Where they tout tribal warfare as being nowhere near as big of a deal, simply because the scale of war and weaponry employed aren't comparable to that of Europeans.
Which is also doubly stupid if they're not comparing against examples of European warfare with similar population sizes/density and relative technological development.
To be honest it would have been cool to see the Germanics as they were thousands of years ago, shouting in the woods at Romans to defend big empty woods. The micro ethnicities of Europe that were paved over by the Romans and the Mongols and the Vikings and now the EUists could have provided some legitimately amazing insights into the world if they weren't paved over by more localized versions of globohomo.
Shall we not also acknowledge that America has actually held the Black Hills region, for example, longer than the native Lakota/Sioux? (This would be the land that Sitting Bull was fighting George Custer & Nelson Miles over.) The Lakota conquered it with their usual brutality from the Cheyenne in 1776, and lost it to the Americans almost exactly a century later in 1877; the US, obviously, has held it in the 147 years since.
Oh who am I kidding, violent conquest & the displacement or assimilation of the people who were there before (accompanied with one's own settlement of the region) is only bad when whitey does it, amirite.
I find it kinda funny when the liberals do the land acknowledgement thing and they'll name numerous tribes. And half of the named tribes are extinct because the people who conquered them genocided them.
Tribes conquering other tribes is as old as time but somehow it’s only relevant when Europeans do it
It’s because Europeans/whites were the only race that felt bad about it, or at the very least tried to be compassionate about it. It was a mistake. As was the 19th Amendment that allowed women to vote based on those feelings.
There's a reason why museums are a White Man invention and interest.
We're such a superior people that it only matters when we massacre your people out of existence. The petty squabbles of the tribesmen are immaterial compared to when we take to the field.
I mean yeah.
In a way, it's a rather "racist" perception on the part of leftists. Where they tout tribal warfare as being nowhere near as big of a deal, simply because the scale of war and weaponry employed aren't comparable to that of Europeans.
Which is also doubly stupid if they're not comparing against examples of European warfare with similar population sizes/density and relative technological development.
Because we are at the top of the food chain.
To be honest it would have been cool to see the Germanics as they were thousands of years ago, shouting in the woods at Romans to defend big empty woods. The micro ethnicities of Europe that were paved over by the Romans and the Mongols and the Vikings and now the EUists could have provided some legitimately amazing insights into the world if they weren't paved over by more localized versions of globohomo.
Shall we not also acknowledge that America has actually held the Black Hills region, for example, longer than the native Lakota/Sioux? (This would be the land that Sitting Bull was fighting George Custer & Nelson Miles over.) The Lakota conquered it with their usual brutality from the Cheyenne in 1776, and lost it to the Americans almost exactly a century later in 1877; the US, obviously, has held it in the 147 years since.
Oh who am I kidding, violent conquest & the displacement or assimilation of the people who were there before (accompanied with one's own settlement of the region) is only bad when whitey does it, amirite.