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To: DallasBiff
Thanksgiving Glorifies the Abhorrent Colonization of Indigenous Peoples

And your point is???

We bought it all for a few beads and some 'fire' water... They didn't know what the worth of their land was... Because they didn't even know what possessing and owning something even meant... Because they were stone-aged people.

Did we take advantage of their stupidity?? Of course we did... But they did get those beads and some 'fire' water, so it wasn't like we stole their land... We could've given them nothing, kept the beads and the 'fire' water and taken the land outright... But instead... We made an honest trade.

16 posted on 11/26/2025 2:18:55 PM PST by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: jerod

If I recall correctly the injuns who sold Manhattan island to the settlers didn’t even “own” the land and sold it from under another tribe.


49 posted on 11/26/2025 3:22:26 PM PST by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower.)
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