Everyone should always keep a close watch on their government, this we will certainly agree on.
Where we are just going to have to agree to disagree is calling the history of the conflict Genocide. If european settlers has wished genocide upon the native americans, honestly you and I would not be having this conversation, as you and your bloodline would no longer exist. That’s the definition of genocide.
Genocide: (n) the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.
Native Americans cannot claim they have been exterminated, in fact more claim Native American blood today than when the Europeans first arrived her. What Germany did with the Jews was attempted genocide, what happened to the native americans, was not. Does this mean no horrible things happened? Of course not, but calling it Genocide is just not appropriate.
Part of the PC nonsense is to bandy about words beyond their meanings for shock value. IE calling Bush a Nazi.. or Conservatives “Fascists”... This is the what is being done when GENOCIDE is used in relation to the native americans. While it may not have been something moral, that doesn’t make it a Genocide.
There have been true genocides in history. I personally have little doubt, had the Native Americans won the war against the europeans you’d be hard pressed to find more than a trace of caucasian blood on this continent. Children and women were not spared their wrath, except for a few women who were taken as wives and spoils of war. What the native americans have been through, was not and is not genocide, if it was as I stated before you and I would not be having this conversation.
I do not believe that (Germany's war) was genocide either, otherwise we wouldn't have any j*ws about. I guess we will disagee.
I personally have little doubt, had the Native Americans won the war against the europeans you’d be hard pressed to find more than a trace of caucasian blood on this continent.
In some cases, perhaps but "American Indians" are not a uniform people, we are all different. To this day you can be part of Navajo tribe and be white as snow, they are not all racially motivated.