You do not find expressions like ‘derived from “Indigenous Savages” and “Cannibal ancestors”’ in any way racist?
Granted, before the Conquest, in Europe, some 18 million people had been butchered in the hundred years’ war, and a hundred years after the Conquest, some 8 million people were butchered in the 30 years’ war. But though the “indigenous savages” of Europe had no reservations about slaughtering women and children, at least they didn’t eat them, which means we are not at all like our “non-cannibal savage ancestors” in America today.
“You do not find expressions like ‘derived from “Indigenous Savages” and “Cannibal ancestors”’ in any way racist?”
No, and as a matter of fact while they are not sympathetic, perhaps the only criticism is that I left out “Stone Age” from what more accurately should have been “Indigenous Stone Age Savages”.
Probably, the reason we won and the Savages lost was the technology and the nation state versus tribal organization of the Europeans.
Please remember that Columbus described cannibalism and the fattening of humans for food as being practiced by the natives in the islands he first discovered in the New World.
Killing people is one thing. Making livestock of them is another. We disagree on the depth and width of the cultural chasm separating America from what lurks beyond the US/Mexico border.
If you do not understand the full horror of being marched long distances to be used as a slave and then eaten, nothing I can write will make any difference.