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Re:Polynesian DNA suggests epic voyage to South America 800 ... by Grakel on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @07:25PM (#23775368)
You don't have any evidence for that. All of human history is consistently filled with violence, every single day, and it still is.

It's easy to criticize the successful, but each of us is the result of a global legacy of competitive murder, no matter your race.

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Re:Polynesian DNA suggests epic voyage to South America 800 ... by radford-neal on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @07:39PM (#23775474)
Indeed. The history of the Chatham islands is enough to dispell any notion that polynesians are somehow incapable of mass murder and enslavement. See

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_Islands

This history also illustrates that peacefulness is also within the capacity of any people.

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Re:Polynesian DNA suggests epic voyage to South America 800 ... by Grakel on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @07:51PM (#23775552)
Wow, interesting. We should all feel very lucky that we live in a time where we don't even have to kill our own food, much less each other. And we're only like half way to real peace.
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Re:Polynesian DNA suggests epic voyage to South America 800 ... by totetsu on Thursday July 09, 2020 @01:40AM (#23777251)
Some Polynesian Body armor was pretty bad ass https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-oceania/oceania-p...
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Re:Polynesian DNA suggests epic voyage to South America 800 ... by markdown on Thursday July 09, 2020 @05:06AM (#23778300)
That is Micronesian, not Polynesian. It seems to be very common amongst Americans to think that all Pacific Islanders are Polynesian. Probably because of Hawaii.
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