Thursday, July 27, 2023

On the Fact that Early On In the Colonial Period, the Europeans and Native-Americans Both Broke Treaties (a Reality that Also Included Europeans Breaking Treaties with Other European Countries and Native-Americans Breaking Treaties with Other Native-Americans) and that it Was Only When the Balance of Power Significantly Shifted to the Europeans' Advantage that it Altered to What Is Now the Prevailing Narrative

 I'm writing this not to castigate either side but rather to put the founding of America into its proper historical perspective (you know, as opposed to the constant lambasting of historical figures like Cortez, Jefferson, Lee, etc. simply because they fail to measure up to our 21st Century sensibilities - George Bush Jr. and Joe Biden, those two assholes obviously being much fairer game). The fact of the matter is that might made right for millennia and to try to pin these dastardly deeds entirely on white Europeans is moronic as atrocities have been perpetrated by virtually every ethnic group on the planet (Xhosa against Khoikhoi and San, Zulus against multiple tribes, Comanches against Apaches, Muslims against Hindus in India, Mongols against Kievan Rus', Ottoman Turks against Armenians, and Maori against Moriori, just to name several). If anything............Oh, never mind. I made my point.

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