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A comment on Life in the Americas Before Columbus (2002). Parent comment

Re:Life in the Americas Before Columbus (2002) by rthomas6 on Monday October 13, 2014 @03:18PM (#8450088)
Oh, there's no doubt that we wiped out the Native Americans on purpose. Systematically. Over several hundred years. I didn't mean to imply otherwise. But even in that effort, disease played a part through purposeful infection.
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Re:Life in the Americas Before Columbus (2002) by ende on Monday October 13, 2014 @10:41PM (#8451691)
You were there?
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Re:Life in the Americas Before Columbus (2002) by rthomas6 on Tuesday October 14, 2014 @10:48AM (#8453633)
No... but other people were, and those people wrote first-hand accounts of what happened. In history those are called "primary sources". That's how history is determined. And I don't know what else to call the depicted slaughter, the wars, and the forcible relocation to useless lands other than systematic eradication.
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Re:Life in the Americas Before Columbus (2002) by ende on Thursday October 16, 2014 @05:51PM (#8468016)
That wasn't a comment about your account of history but rather your involvement in it. To put another way, would someone who is half-native hald-european be half-victim half-responsible, or is it just ridiculous to attribute blame for periods of history through descent?
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