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Originally Posted by abaya
Indeed, the tribal casinos (at least in WA state) are a unique demonstration of karma.
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I'm no artist, stick figures are at times beyond by capabilities. But one day in court while waiting for a case I was doodling. I drew a little cartoon. Two frames. One side had a Union soldier offering blankets and whiskey to an Indian. The next frame had an Indian telling a guy at a black jack table "of course you can double down on those 10's" It was a doodle in the front page of my day runner for a long time. One day a clerical worker in my office saw it and asked "I get the guys offering booze to the Indians but what's under the bottles of booze?" Blankets I told her. She said something to the effect of "So, he wants him to be warm after he gets drunk?" I told her we gave blankets laden with small pox to the Indians, was cheaper and easier then bullets. She thought that was completely false said that was the craziest thing she ever heard. She was 20+ years older then me and a product of the 40-50 education system. Considering many believe we continued to hand out infected blanket well beyond the turn of the century I have no doubt this is a fact she did not learn in school.
It's not just an American thing either. I spent six months living in Japan. The version of WWII and it's causes they learn differ from that taught in US schools by a shocking margin. I had a conversation one day with a friend I met there. He knew Japan had troops in China, but thought it was mainly to keep the Chinese from invading Japan. So you invaded another country to keep them from invading you? Why does that sound familiar? I didn't ask him what he knew about how the Japanese treated POW's.