Honkies

https://nypost.com/2019/10/29/ilhan-omar-one-of-three-house-reps-to-vote-present-on-armenia-genocide-bill/ @Engineered Eldritch Catgirl

huh

makes sense

So apparently she watches the Young Turks

Her reasoning @SPOOKY Phil, Ruler of Heck
```“A true acknowledgment of historical crimes against humanity must include both the heinous genocides of the 20th century, along with earlier mass slaughters like the trans-Atlantic slave trade and Native American genocide, which took the lives of hundreds of millions of indigenous people in this country,” she said in the statement, according to CNN.```

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the Armenian Genocide took the lives of millions LMAO

and was far more recent

Mate, she thinks Natives dying of disease is a genocide

It's barely been a fucking CENTURY since it happened

speaking of

when I was in Philly one time

I legit saw a sign talking about the Armenian Genocide

something something never forget

@Gservator What about this sand nigga?

https://youtu.be/rL2XX_2tNk8

@Gservator

ah ye, makes sense

like 15k Armenians live in Philly

She said "No U" when being asked to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide @Engineered Eldritch Catgirl

ooof

Most of the deaths of Natives during the time the Europeans have been in America

can be classified as accidental

because AFAIK

Malaria on blankets

Accident

Europeans didn't understand diseases all that well

90% of all natives in the americas died of disease

that blanket thing is mostly a myth

like islam, islam is a disease.

Gaah myth

nuking is the answer

Rather it b true

@Canadalake

https://www.history.com/news/colonists-native-americans-smallpox-blankets

only one instance of it

most native americans have already died when the europeans settled in north america

Hands up don't shoot is the modern Smallpox Blanket @Kinky Kitsune (Coomer)

Who pinged me?

Not to mention

Who dafuq pinged me?

I thought Jackson did it as well

native fucking indians were killing each other before we even came onto the scene

@SPOOKY Phil, Ruler of Heck and that's way after the initial discovery and colonization

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Fort_Pitt

this is the only known instance of purposeful infection

AFAIK

Everyone was killing each other doesn’t mean shit

also people throwing diseases at each other is nothing new

the mongols did it with plague infected bodies

the thought didn't even cross their minds about purposely weaponizing until the French and Indian war

```Colonial weaponizing of smallpox against Native Americans was first reported by 19th-century historian Francis Parkman, who came across correspondence in which Sir Jeffery Amherst, commander in chief of the British forces in North America in the early 1760s, had discussed its use with Col. Henry Bouquet, a subordinate on the western frontier during the French and Indian War.```

@Kinky Kitsune (Coomer) medieval europe did it with rotting livestock

wouldn't Europeans need a concept of microbiology to be able to knowingly give smallpox blankets to the natives with the intent of infecting them?

Damn should have utilised it sooner

Spanish probably did not know certainly not the French or English

since it was easier just to fight Natives in battles previously (due to the lack of numerical superiority on the Colonists part)

@Some Fucking Leaf no, you just need to know if something makes someone sick

People knew the concept of disease before microbiology

>There’s also no clear historical verdict on whether the biological attack even worked.

GG

Damn that’s sad

you know that touching a sick person makes them sick, but that doesn't mean that you are aware that there's shit left on the things a sick person touches

Pretty sure some illiterate Yates would not willingly handle “diseased” blankets

Reread that leaf

@Some Fucking Leaf well they would've found out sooner or later that you shouldn't touch a sick persons stuff

```“The infection on the blankets was apparently old, so no one could catch smallpox from the blankets. Besides, the Indians just had smallpox—the smallpox that reached Fort Pitt had come from Indians—and anyone susceptible to smallpox had already had it.”```

GG

becuase it makes you sick

@Some Fucking Leaf we knew disease came from animals, we knew plague came from enclosed large cities, we can put two and two together

doesnt take an expert to figure that out sooner or later

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Didn’t Jackson infect some Indians tho

sickness for the longest time was thought to be an imbalance of fluids in the body

they didn't know germs existed at the time

Yeah like before the renaissance

@Some Fucking Leaf in the 14th century that wasn't the case anymore

But this shit was happening post enlightenment and shit

Everyone knows the Spanish missionaries accidentally spread the diseases, first.

U don’t need microbiology to spread disease

@Canadalake thats the point, leftys will blame the white people for killing native indians but they were already enslaving, raping and murdering their own kind long before we came to america.

Yeah I’m not a lefty

People used to catapult cow carcasses over walls in ancient rome to infect people with disease

Ye, Lefties are WAY overhyping it

we still had a part to play

I just thought Jackson murked some natives

yeah they are

but it was far smaller

With malaria on blankets

@Canadalake I think he might've, but I doubt it was on that big of a scale

Doesn’t matter it’s still hype

Ye

People who posit that the New World was some peaceful paradise of harmony and love are idiots.

Jackson is goat

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