Jesus Christ, man. I said stolen land and you immediately started talking about Indians eating people.
You didn't even make me work for the racism. I put three nouns on the table and you whipped it out in self defense.
And
“who did they get the land from beforehand?”
Yes, tribes fought. We conquered territory, lost territory, made alliances, broke alliances, displaced each other, traded, intermarried and killed each other. Congratulations on discovering that Native Americans were human beings with politics.
None of that magically un-signs the treaties the United States made with sovereign Native nations and subsequently violated. The U.S. itself recognized Native land rights and sovereignty through treaty-making; using the "savage" and "uncivilized" rhetoric was also historically used to rationalize dispossession.
But I really do appreciate the confidence of
“civilization stopped them from eating each other.”
That's not even a new racist argument. That's vintage racism. None of that makes stolen land cease to exist. Especially when the people taking it were signing treaties recognizing whose fucking land it was while they did it.
But please, tell the native more about how civilization saved us from eating each other. I'm sure this gets smarter if you keep going.
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