even if you don't believe "cultural obliteration" absent mass murder is a bad thing in itself, it says a lot that people who favor it have an exceptional track record of deciding that mass murder is a great way to achieve their goals
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Replying to @Majotaur @arthur_affect and
Because that's the final solution, when you decide some people have less value than others. Deny those people resources, deny them access to societal supports, and if they refuse to die then speed it along.
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Replying to @estarianne @Majotaur and
It always starts with shit like Henry's "seductive whisper of modernity" Once they see and understand just how much *better* we are then them they'll all fall over themselves to convert We will be greeted as liberators
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Replying to @arthur_affect @estarianne and
Then when that doesn't happen, they get mad This is exactly how Martin Luther went from seeing himself as a great friend and protector to the Jews to crying out for them to be driven from their homes by a wave of fire when none of them became Lutherans
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Replying to @arthur_affect @estarianne and
also this dude is denying genocide happened to Native Americans in the killing-people sense which, uh, is very, not, much, with the true, in the slightest?
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
That was my thought too, because once you decide some people are inferior to others, it’s very easy to cover up their deaths. Every effort at forced assimilation has resulted in murder because always some don’t comply.
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Replying to @estarianne @BootlegGirl and
The same argument can be run against any pious wish whatsoever. For instance, the wish to have a less unequal society.
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @estarianne and
"You START that way," the objection runs, "but when things don't pan out how you want, you use force, and next thing, it's Maoist China"
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @estarianne and
Doubtless the extremes ARE a warning; but it would be foolish to take them as reasons not to attempt any program of reform whatever.
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @estarianne and
so, the "reform" you're advocating is to the customs of Native peoples? Just so we're clear what you're in fact saying?
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He's a right wing Australian, he probably thinks of stealing Aboriginal babies as a humanitarian effort to give them a better life
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
And he thinks their parents belong in jail for refusing to follow colonial laws.
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Replying to @estarianne @arthur_affect and
You just made that up. I never said anything like that.
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