[mass55th]

"Isn't that what virtually every people group did?"

So just because other groups did it in the past, it's okay that we did it in the late 19th and early 20th century, and should be given a pass for doing it? Being critical of the practice isn't allowed because everybody else in antiquity did it too?

[Texan5]

I’m currently reading Thomas Sowell”s “Conquests and Cultures”-in the chapter I’m reading now, he addresses the economic, cultural and other consequences of the early interactions between the Europeans and Native-Iroquois, Mohicans etc in Canada and what is now the Northern border part of the US. The French appear to have been the most pragmatic in their dealings with the Natives in Canada-but that isn’t saying much-Sowell does not gloss over the greed and cruelty on both sides, or the economic advantages gained in trade, theft, raiding, etc.

I do believe we should realize none of our ancestors from anywhere were exactly paragons of virtue, and learn from history. My ancestors were Spanish, with a few Natives thrown in-the Spanish were pretty much the worst of the conquerors of the time with their Inquisition-but the Natives were not innocent victims-they were just outgunned-literally. I also I have not inherited a desire to rack some heretics or cut out some captured enemy’s heart...

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Being critical of the practice isn't allowed because everybody else in antiquity did it too?

Pretty much.

Not only that it is pretty useless. All involved are dead.

[Tell It Right]

Being critical of the practice is allowed. I simply grow tired of the criticism directed solely at on race when it’s obvious that many races did the same.