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Question - when Don the Con said "...we tamed a continent...", was he aware that (Original Post) malaise Jun 2018 OP
And was he aware of what that "taming" consisted of? The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2018 #1
It was genocide malaise Jun 2018 #2
His base still thinks it is the 1950s The Genealogist Jun 2018 #3
Viva Mexico ! Achilleaze Jun 2018 #4
Same here malaise Jun 2018 #5
You triggered me Malaise Achilleaze Jun 2018 #6
LOL malaise Jun 2018 #7
Why did it need taming? ProudLib72 Jun 2018 #8
He's a racist malaise Jun 2018 #9
Yes, it's the fact that he is using that terminology in 2018 that gets me ProudLib72 Jun 2018 #10
He wants to return to that time malaise Jun 2018 #11

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,732 posts)
1. And was he aware of what that "taming" consisted of?
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 05:07 PM
Jun 2018

That is, taking over the land of the people who already lived there? Genocide?

The Genealogist

(4,723 posts)
3. His base still thinks it is the 1950s
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 05:16 PM
Jun 2018

You know the 1950s, when depictions of Native Americans in movies were overwhelmingly of bloodthirsty savages out to murder innocent white people who were just carrying out God's plan of Manifest Destiny.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
4. Viva Mexico !
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 05:16 PM
Jun 2018

Totally psyched for the Mexico Vs. South Korea match on Saturday.

I've already bet a bucket of stale, skunk-sprayed doughnuts that republican misleader Dirty Donny* will open his fat yap again and say something stupid about this game or Mexico or both.

malaise

(269,050 posts)
9. He's a racist
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 05:50 PM
Jun 2018

The stereotype was/is that Indigenous People were/are wild - you know savages, barbarians, all the crap they called non-white people

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
10. Yes, it's the fact that he is using that terminology in 2018 that gets me
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 05:53 PM
Jun 2018

In the 18th and 19th centuries I could see it being used. Not now, though! I guess this is a term that the MSM will normalize.

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