Tornicade
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so all the historians who alleged genocide by the europeans aganst native americans are mature smart guys and all the historians who dispute this and demonstrate a lack of consistent intent are ignorant and need to grow up?This is totally off base. Hitler used the genocide against native Americans as a template and inspiration for the Holocaust.
I can't believe how ignorant this thread is. Grow up.
this absolutism is as puritanical as you can shielding itself behind racism instead of religion.
You did have you Vasquez balboa's and Williams Trents, and Jeffery Amherst. but over a 500 year history those guys are in the minority.
As far as Lewis Cass withholding smallpox from one tribe while administering it to many others. That certainly wouldn't fall under racism.
Guenter Lewry is far from ignorant and has done solid work disproving the notion of mass genocide against native americans outside of a few instances in California that was met with public outcry and action taken against the perpetuators.
Sand creek Massacre and once again the colonization of California were acts of genocide however these weren't products of racism. these were results of vicious acts by all parties
to compare those to the holocaust , the Armenian genocide where over 6 million people died in less than a decade is ridiculous.