• PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    Don’t forget Native Americans called Washington “Town Destroyer”. And it was not only because he was destroying towns but also because he inherited this title from his great-grandpa who was also called Town Destroyer because he also destroyed towns. Generally, when i look at the history of British-USA ruling class, destroying native towns was very popular among them.

    Oh, and he liked that nickname.

  • FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    5 months ago

    I don’t go so far as to think that the only good Indian is the dead Indian, but I believe nine out of every ten are, and I shouldn’t like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth. The most vicious cowboy has more moral principle than the average Indian. Take three hundred low families of New York and New Jersey, support them, for fifty years, in vicious idleness, and you will have some idea of what the Indians are. Reckless, revengeful, fiendishly cruel.

    Theodore Roosevelt

    From https://archive.is/kHb7V

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      5 months ago

      and intentionally so as well; just like the isrealis making jerusalem their capital.