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[–] Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

While the big three empirical powers that colonized the Americas are all at fault, they are late comers compared to the Spanish. By the time the British started their first colony Desoto had ripped through appalachia, on a quest for gold, and had murdered, raped, and enslaved many natives. More importantly though, he introduced most of the tribes to old world diseases, which was apocalyptic to them.

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

True, that ball was already rolling when the Brits kicked it, but my point is that it didn't stop being kicked afterwards either. Or to this day, really.

[–] Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago

Oh yeah, the Native American genocide is still happening. These days it is mostly ignoring treaties to take their land for things like oil pipelines, but still going on.