write it in your books so you dont forget

Well they created the greatest country on earth

@PureEvilPie nobody is claiming that it was. I just dont think that it should be hung over me

and dont get mad af about it

@PureEvilPie Why do you care about poeple who are more than 400 years dead

Europeans were real mean to each other

It's history

Fucking hell, in every European war women were raped and villages were pillaged en masse

history is history

you cant have only good things

It doesn't matter all that matters is the facts and the fact is that the natives were killed by people who had better technology than they did

Acknowledging that fact doesn't make you racist

What Europeans did to natives is akin to what happened in the 30 Years War

Look up the Siege of Magdeburg

and the wheel had not been seen or heard of by a fair amount of tribes at the end of 19th century

Genocide is intentional action to destroy a group of people (usually defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group) in whole or in part.

really makes you think

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american genocide is real

kek

Yeah by that definition the Siege of Magdeburg can actually be defined as genocide

To say that it's bad based on our morality today is retarded, the people of the time would unironically have believed themselves justified

well it was

@ebinmemes22 true

Because they were just using empty land and the natives would attack them

*sigh* maybe I put my point across less clearly than I had hoped? my bad.

I'll try harder in the future @PureEvilPie I don't know what else to say.

>empty land

The Emperor of the HRE wanted to punish the protestants for revolting so he ordered an entite town to be slaughtered, pillaged and raped.

Land without tribes on it

It was

Empty

To them

They see it

And see empty land

@Swedishmafia101 sounds like genocide to me tbh

history is written by the victors

plus every single nation or tribe will have done some utterly disgusting by todays standers so it was inventible that Europe would colonise most of africa

>empty land

They don't go "oh the native villages mile from here might like his land, maybe they buried their dead in this undisturbed unmarked gravesite"

Yeah lol, the natives were much worse

You cannot judge the actions of the past by the morals of today