Sometimes history is cruel.

[truepenny]

Of our two major-party candidates for President of the United States in the year 2000, one is sharing a Nobel Peace Prize with the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Don't mind me, I'll be over here choking on my own bitter laughter.

Oh, yes, and happy Columbus Day, too. Celebrating 515 years of rape, murder, theft, oppression, and genocide.

Comments

[tx-cronopio.livejournal.com]

Sorry to have been offensive, but that's such a 1974 thing to say. I think there are more important battles to fight, and a woman as intelligent as you knows that.

[deepad]

Wow. You just managed to be offensive on an even more obnoxious level with that clarification.

(Feel free to delete this, Truepenny, if you'd rather.)

[hermetic.livejournal.com]

Wow. You removed the foot in your mouth to insert an entire leg.

The recognition of the fact of the genocide of the Americas is not a trivial thing, and pointing it out on the anniversary of its beginning is entirely appropriate.

While I, as a mestizo, would likely not exist if the conquest had not happened, I still recognize and mourn the loss of hundreds of peoples, cultures, languages and particular ways of being human the were obliterated through disease, active persecution and willing murder. A full one-fifth of the human race died as a consequence of the 'discovery' of the Americas. Remembering that is little enough to do, and it is incumbent upon anyone who is not ignorant of the history to do so--not just those who suffered most.

[michaeldthomas.livejournal.com]

Well said.

Let’s not forget that while Congress messes around with resolutions about the genocide of Armenians in Turkey, we as a nation are guilty of much greater crimes against Native Americans and Africans. It happened. You don’t need to be a Native American or African American to say this. In fact, one of the reasons why so many social injustices continue to this day is the refusal of many the descendants of the European immigrants to acknowledge what was done to create this wonderful “land of the free.”

Some people need research the current living conditions on many Reservations. Things have not greatly improved since 1974.

It’s a great day to be an American. :)

[liminalia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, because the oppression of Native Americans is totally over nowadays. Just ask Leonard Peltier. Oh, wait, I forgot, he's still in prison for a murder he didn't commit.

Hullo, white privilege. How's it goin'?

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure how "sorry to be offensive, but here's some more offense" works. Could that be explained to me?