[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]DBADNB1 wrote:
[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]DBADNB1 wrote:
[quote]cavemansam wrote:
i think muslim extremist are just getting started
but what about the native american indians they lost there whole country to Immigrants
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No they lost their entire country to invaders.
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Rank stupidity.
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Sorry, when did the European colonists go to America as migrants, looking to enter the native population and assimilate? They didn’t, they went and took control of the land, took slaves, abused and made war…
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Another foolish statement made by one obviously void of knowledge of American history.
More later because you won’t get away with this kind of bullshit on this forum.
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FNG, here’s your history lesson. Sit up and pay attention and don’t look up Candy’s dress for a few minutes and Professor Push will correctly counter the bullshit you’ve been served up in whatever half-ass educational system got its hooks into you.
Native Americans did not “lose their country to invaders” because they had no “country” to lose. None.
They were aboriginals who had no cohesiveness, no unification, which is required by virtually any definition of “country.”
North and South America, especially North, was one of, if not the most sparsely settled land masses on the face of the earth at the time of the initial “invasion” which of course was no invasion at all; it was a very slow settlement process that occurred over centuries.
Native Americans systematically and constantly engaged in some of the most brutal atrocities – against each other – long before and long after any “invaders” did all there “invading” – atrocities that would make ISIS look like a Baptist Sunday School. Genocide, slavery, rampant theft,torture, mutilations, degrading occultist ceremonies, etc. To be a native American woman was to be slightly, just slightly, higher than a camp dog in terms of treatment within the society. They were called savages because indeed they perpetuated savagery that so many modern folks can simply not even begin to comprehend.
None of that excuses the atrocities that the white “invaders” visited on natives but it does provide a proper historical context and backdrop to this inane idea that a “country” was “invaded.” At the very least, hundreds of thousands if not millions of women were “liberated” by being “rescued” by the “invaders.” Infant mortality rates plummeted; famine and death from the elements was reduced; perpetual violence deescalated; education was introduced, women’s status rose, etc.
Back to the erroneous idea of “country”: there was no system of law that defined borders and established honored legalities. Many if not most tribes drifted, were nomadic, and really could not honestly claim particular parcels of land. There was constant displacement of tribes by other tribes and it didn’t come from diplomacy and/or any recognition of “rights” or right or wrong (morality). It was by brute force and nothing but brute force.
There simply was no societal structure within which any newcomers (invaders) could “assimilate” and to suggest its possibility is to admit to historical ignorance. If they had theoretically “assimilated” they merely would’ve been swept back into the Stone Age because THAT’s essentially what existed (with some exceptions) from the Atlantic to the Pacific at the time of settlement of the America’s; there simply was no such thing as the “invasion of a country” and even if we erroneously construct such an idea the counterpoint is that the white man only did the same thing to the red man that the red man was doing to the red man but with much less, relatively speaking, ruthlessness and barbarity.[/quote]
The tribes did indeed war and commit atrocities against one another, they would, if they could, do the same, they simply, lacked the technological advancement and thus ability to wage war and conquest as well as the Europeans.
However on none of this do we disagree. Europeans on arrival enslaved Natives, demanded gold, basically they arrived and once they arrived they decided to plunder and take for themselves and the empire.
My point in this, is that the comparison of European settlement in the Americas and syrian and iraqi immigration to Europe bear no comparison, as one poster suggested: “look at the native americans, immigration didn’t end too well for them”
European arrival and conquest of North America is such a dumb comparison, which prompted my points you seemed to take issue with. Europeans as you know did not go to assimilate into Native culture, such a thing was not even possible, there was no Nation to join or state system to fold into. Hence my point that the comparison is stupid.
Refugees are coming to Europe to join the country, to assimilate, to work, to have families. As you yourself said Europeans even if they wanted to could not do that in the Americas. Hence my entire point about how the comparison was dumb.
You for some reason took that as some sort of completely different thing, then wrote a bunch of words which basically mirrored my entire point.