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William Shatner

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BTW, Shakespeare forbade woman to act in his plays, Merchant of Venice is thought to be anti-Semitic. Some believe the Chronicles of Narnia are racist. Tolkien’s writings exhibit black and white biases. Most great works have biases: the Odyssey; the Canterbury tales... 🤷🏼‍♂️

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At some point, he'll tell us that what those stories did was HONOR us somehow. Try putting yourself in our shoes, not the 'if I were you I wouldn't care/get over it' shoes. The history of genocide that continues to this day. Of being actively erased by views like yours. Try it.

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Shoes? Who gave Indians shoes?

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@jerseymagician

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Not shoes but they were given blankets...

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I remember a story about high ranking Indian men disposing of their daughters if they were their first born. Isn't that genocide? Or just murder?

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Wouldn't that be more akin to infanticide?

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It will only be relevant for a couple of hundred years and then few will care. Few now living care directly about the conquest of the Roman Empire or even the conquest of the Khans.

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AJ....not ALL natives get those things.

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@ these responses

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Is that racist? I’m not sure.

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