I found my Grandpa’s notes 20 years after he died (2020)

Re:I found my Grandpa’s notes 20 years after he died (2020) by r00fus on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @03:03PM (#27054214)

> Every side was indeed awful, but Nazi Germany's and Imperial Japan's actions in particular were so unprecedentedly awful that far-future generations in those countries probably would've eventually had a reckoning and realized they were the worst actors in the war, like what eventually happened in the US when it comes to treatment of Native Americans, propping up brutal dictatorships in Latin America and elsewhere, and other things.

You honestly think Americans are aware of even the most common atrocities committed in the name of colonization? My read is a) they mostly don't and b) there is an ongoing effort to victim-blame Native Americans going back centuries.

The alternate reality where Nazi Deutschland won would likely similarly deal with the occupied USA/UK/etc like the US treated the natives.

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Re:I found my Grandpa’s notes 20 years after he died (2020) by crooked-v on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @04:12PM (#27055061)

> there is an ongoing effort to victim-blame Native Americans

For example, CNN's Rick Santorum:

> We birthed a nation from nothing. I mean, there was nothing here. I mean, yes we have Native Americans but candidly there isn't much Native American culture in American culture.

https://twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/138668534052253696...

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Re:I found my Grandpa’s notes 20 years after he died (2020) by r00fus on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @04:28PM (#27055289)

The real curiosity is why corporate media allows such speech to be broadcast as if it was in any way truthful. Let's all forget that the US Constitution was based in part on the Iroquois Confederacy [1].

Santorum is on CNN's payroll. Who or whatever is supporting Santorum isn't stupid, likely it supports some revenue/marketing scheme. All of this is fully funded.

[1] https://www.worldcat.org/title/indians-and-the-us-constituti...

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Re:I found my Grandpa’s notes 20 years after he died (2020) by meowface on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @04:52PM (#27055655)

>You honestly think Americans are aware of even the most common atrocities committed in the name of colonization?

Increasingly, yes. I'm sure it'll be many more decades before it becomes more widely accepted, though.

>The alternate reality where Nazi Deutschland won would likely similarly deal with the occupied USA/UK/etc like the US treated the natives.

Very likely, yes.

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