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Originally Posted by roachboy
raheja, a native american person who teaches native american literature and who is also a parent, should stop being such a drag---suck it up, accept the white fantasy origin-myth of what ended up a genocide, and move on.
nothing to see here folks.
i mean, it's a public holiday for christ's sake and none of them has anything to do with history--the fourth of july--nothing to do with history; memorial day--nothing to do with history. it's a holiday---you know, a moment that enables us all to gather together and thank the kind of god that obviously endorsed genocide, since so much of it was carried out in his name, for the fact that on the bones of these folk a different country grew up, one that didn't loose a war and so can pretend to itself that genocide never happened.
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Oh, cry me a river.
Every human nation or country has been built upon the bones of native peoples, i.e. upon the unmarked graves of those people who were there before, and who lost the war for possession of that land. Why should Native Americans be so special? Furthermore, the proponents of
every belief system – be it Christians, Jews, Muslims, pantheists or atheists – have engaged in genocide, throughout human history. So, why bring up religion, into the discussion?