PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to A Comm for Historymemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-219 hours agoThe two kinds of 'British Bad' from the former colonieslemmy.worldimagemessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up1320arrow-down116
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minus-squareWarl0k3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up62arrow-down1·edit-218 hours agoThe only reason the US isn’t solidly in the first camp is because they really nailed the genocide over here. Just look at, say, this meme for an example of how they were so effective people don’t even remember it happened to us.
minus-squareWogi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27arrow-down2·17 hours agoLess it happened to us, and more we were still calling ourselves British when we started doing it to the people that weren’t.
minus-squareWarl0k3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35arrow-down1·edit-217 hours ago(oh sorry, I’m native (Iroquois) and I realize now that that ‘us’ in my first comment was not at all clear about that)
minus-squareAbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·11 hours agoGeorge Washington burned down the villages of native tribes that fought for the US in the revolution…
minus-squarePugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·edit-211 hours agoSource? Not of Washington’s conflict with Native Americans, that he burned down the villages of native tribes that fought for the US in the Revolutionary War.
minus-squareAbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·10 hours agohttps://www.oneidaindiannation.com/oneidas-and-the-birth-of-the-u-s/
minus-squarePugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·10 hours ago https://www.oneidaindiannation.com/oneidas-and-the-birth-of-the-u-s/ That doesn’t say anything about the Oneidas being attacked by the Revolutionaries during the Revolutionary War.
The only reason the US isn’t solidly in the first camp is because they really nailed the genocide over here. Just look at, say, this meme for an example of how they were so effective people don’t even remember it happened to us.
Less it happened to us, and more we were still calling ourselves British when we started doing it to the people that weren’t.
(oh sorry, I’m native (Iroquois) and I realize now that that ‘us’ in my first comment was not at all clear about that)
George Washington burned down the villages of native tribes that fought for the US in the revolution…
Source?
Not of Washington’s conflict with Native Americans, that he burned down the villages of native tribes that fought for the US in the Revolutionary War.
https://www.oneidaindiannation.com/oneidas-and-the-birth-of-the-u-s/
That doesn’t say anything about the Oneidas being attacked by the Revolutionaries during the Revolutionary War.