• eldavi
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      4 days ago

      This is what I mean: the scale and growth of the genocides in North America literally covered an entire content rather than a single country in Palestine but today is a paragraph about the trial of tears in American history books and a couple of signs commemorating particularly nasty episodes in the middle of nowhere and Americans are barely aware.

      It’s like the Japanese glossing over the atrocities they committed during WW2; barely acknowledged even then in the most sanitized, blameless, passive way possible.

    • Jabril [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      Eh, a lot of people don’t even see it as a genocide. I’ve argued with people (including a non white person) who tried to tell me it wasn’t a genocide. It is amazing how history can be erased, even as it still unfolds