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Originally Posted by Jadast
I don't think we can give back to people who lost out on their lands. Unfortunately this is Darwinism at its worst. The strong survive and the weak are replaced. If we start giving back where would we stop? Do the Celts get land back as well?
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Darwinism is natural selection. Genocide (regardless of how gradual) is the opposite—unnatural or artificial selection.
A great deal of Native Americans live in abject poverty because businesses don't want to set up shop on reservations and allotted land. Upper class is often in the $30,000 range on a reservation. Not to mention there are crime issues that stem from what seems like systemic alcohol abuse. They got a really, really crappy deal and it wouldn't take much to help. Imagine if we gave tax breaks to businesses on reservations. Or free utilities. Or tons of scholarships.
We gave them gambling, which generally is connected to crime and substance abuse. Then, when a few casinos start to succeed, a ballot measure to tax the reservation mysteriously appears.