If you find yourself minimizing the atrocities of slavery is it time that you reexamine your life and your ideologies?

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I think slavery gets more than its due. The genocide of the Native Americans and the ugliness of the reservation system, on the other hand, not so much.

FunKingPizzaShip · M

@IvanKaramazov: What happened to the Native Americans is a tragedy, no doubt. But genocide implies that it was intentional.

90-95% of Natives died without ever seeing a European and prior to the 20th century, Natives fought and killed other tribes in larger numbers and more frequently than Europeans.

I'm not saying that European Americans are innocent of atrocities done to the natives, but calling it a genocide is exaggerated.

Flenflyys · 31-35, F

90% of native deaths were a result of diseases like smallpox. Horrible, but unintended and not intentionally oppressive, @IvanKaramazov: