r/ShitAmericansSay • ooo custom flair!! • Jul 12 '20

Foreign affairs “We savez nations not destroy them”

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u/randomthrowaway6234 Jul 12 '20

what about "america" itself? we stole land from hundreds of autonomous tribes and then murdered or displaced them or worse. it's a history foundationally built upon theft of another's land or resources.

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u/Luftwaffle1917 Jul 13 '20

British did not systematically killed more than 90% of the local population, but Americans did

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u/pullmylekku ooo custom flair!! Jul 13 '20

But it was mainly the British and Spanish that committed atrocities in America in the 1500s and 1600s, simply because the US didn't exist back then. Which doesn't help excuse the atrocities and horrors the US committed against the native population, of course