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CousinIT

(9,251 posts) Sat Jan 19, 2019, 04:43 PM Jan 2019

America ...the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out...

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“(America)...perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade...Our literature, our films, our drama, our folklore all exalt it." #MLK #MLK90

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America ...the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out... (Original Post) CousinIT Jan 2019 OP

Aborigines didn't fare too well in Australia, factually speaking beachbum bob Jan 2019 #1

Worse in Tasmania, now that you mention it. Pope George Ringo II Jan 2019 #3

Yeah that's just not true. Loki Liesmith Jan 2019 #2

Yeah, we did that, but we are far from the only nation in history... Wounded Bear Jan 2019 #4

beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)

1. Aborigines didn't fare too well in Australia, factually speaking

Reply to CousinIT (Original post)

Sat Jan 19, 2019, 04:57 PM

Jan 2019

Pope George Ringo II

(1,896 posts)

3. Worse in Tasmania, now that you mention it.

Reply to beachbum bob (Reply #1)

Sat Jan 19, 2019, 05:43 PM

Jan 2019

Not that there's much to be proud of in that bit of American history, either.

Loki Liesmith

(4,602 posts)

2. Yeah that's just not true.

Reply to CousinIT (Original post)

Sat Jan 19, 2019, 05:01 PM

Jan 2019

To make this claim you kinda gotta really make a generous read of the history of Australia, South Africa, Liberia, Israel...as well as any number of nations and empires in the ancient world.

Wounded Bear

(58,674 posts)

4. Yeah, we did that, but we are far from the only nation in history...

Reply to CousinIT (Original post)

Sat Jan 19, 2019, 05:44 PM

Jan 2019

to do that. In fact, it's probably more common than not.

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