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Re:A 400-year story of progress – How America became the wor... by oh_sigh on Monday September 25, 2017 @12:11AM (#15328016)
If the US was stolen, then the Native American tribes were also stealing it from previous occupants. Heck, there are tribes in the southwest which only got to the southwest by conquering other Native American tribes after Europeans were already roaming around here.

So, it's hard to really feel sorry for them, especially because Europeans put the land to much more productive use per acre than Native Americans did.

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Re:A 400-year story of progress – How America became the wor... by ionised on Monday September 25, 2017 @07:25AM (#15329521)
So genocide is excusable provided the excuse is productivity?
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Re:A 400-year story of progress – How America became the wor... by oh_sigh on Monday September 25, 2017 @03:36PM (#15333368)
No, because it was par for the course at that point in history and the people who were genocided were themselves genociding other people simultaneously, and only came to live on the given land because they enslaved, pillaged, raped, and killed the previous native americans who were living on the land.
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