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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That’s a ridiculous interpretation of history

A linear series of events? Are you going to start talking about the War of Northern Aggression, next? Denouncing the tyrant Lincoln and his bloodthirsty Radical Republicans, then dismiss Fort Sumter?

Literally every bad thing that revolutionaries did

The collapse of revolutions into violence are precipitated by the caging and killing of its most peaceful members.

natives welcomed the Pilgrims with open arms

You can pull that info directly from Columbus's own journals. Guanahaní was full of some of the most peaceful and pleasant people to have ever existed. When the Spanish arrived, they immediately began looting, raping, and killing.

Cortez and Pizzaro were originally greated as honored guests, only to return the hospitality with wholesale hostage taking and rampant murder. This is self-reported

When the English arrived, they immediately began kidnapping and torturing natives of the Mid-Atlantic in search of their own golden city. This is also extensively well documented by the original settlers.

But for the next 500 years, the native peoples were described as vicious cannibal savages by settler colomialists whose original contact was no different than a swarm of locusts.

That's why you think they were evil monsters inhabiting North America who all needed to be Christianized to save their souls. That's why you think Evil Wicked Godless Communists were doing holocausts all across Eastern Europe right before WW2 broke out. That's why you're likely going to buy into the next Big Lie about evil Palestinians, or evil Mexicans, or evil Chinese people next.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

What the fuck are you talking about?

Get back to the point: you unconditionally defend revolutionaries and believe they are all saints who can do no wrong.