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2013-11-30 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Fred 2013-11-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 From Powerline

Actually, some Indian tribes were victims of genocide. The Iroquois wiped out the Huron, the Erie and others. The Sioux nearly succeeded in their attempt to kill all the Pawnee. The Sioux themselves likely would have been exterminated by the Ojibwa if they had not fled from the forests to the Great Plains. So it is not unreasonable to link the word genocide with American Indian tribes.

However, the liberals claim that the U.S. government (or more broadly, European settlers in what is now the U.S.) committed genocide is contemptible. If our government had wanted to exterminate the Indians, it could easily have done so. Native numbers were reduced by the arrival of Europeans, but not because the settlers killed them. While I know of no accurate tally, the Indians may have killed as many Europeans as the Europeans killed Indians. The Indians were in general far more warlike, and not infrequently better armed.

What did reduce Indian numbers significantly was disease, especially smallpox and cholera. Beyond that, the depleted Indian populations were overwhelmed demographically by the vastly more numerous whites, and many of them intermarried and joined the more advanced European/American culture. While the story of the American Indians is often tragic, it is anything but a history of genocide.

So, can Europeans claim the genocide meme too with the introduction of the Black Plague from central Asia that killed millions, estimated a quarter of the entire continental population, a third of England, and half of Scandinavia.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-11-30 07:19|| 2013-11-30 07:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Don't forget that the arrival of syphillus in europe coincided with the return of Columbus's crews, so the genome transmission wasn't totally one way.

Posted by ed in texas 2013-11-30 13:18|| 2013-11-30 13:18|| Front Page Top

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