NBC Journalist tweets that life was grand before the white people ruined 'this land'

American Thinker ^ | 03/08/2023 | Eric Utter

[SeekAndFind]

NBC News contributing “journalist” Simon Moya-Smith, 39, who is also a lecturer at the University of Colorado at Denver, recently put out the following tweet:

“Before white people came to this land, there were no jails, no homelessness, no laws against homosexuality or abortion. For thousands of years, Indigenous peoples emphasized health, housing, freedom to love who you love and the fact that we need Mother Earth. She doesn’t need us.”

 

Before white people came to this land, there were no jails, no homelessness, no laws against homosexuality or abortion. For thousands of years, Indigenous peoples emphasized health, housing, freedom to love who you love and the fact that we need Mother Earth. She doesn’t need us. — Simon Moya-Smith (@SimonMoyaSmith) March 4, 2023

 

Simon Moya-Smith (Twitter icon)

This is an example of what we call “fake news.”

There may have been a dearth of jails, but prisoners of war could be captured, tortured, enslaved, or killed. Some tribes had “Blood Laws,” which referred to the widespread practice, particularly in the southeast, of revenge killing. Under this system, when someone killed a member of a particular clan, people from the offending clan had to kill one of their own to balance things out. (I’m guessing there was much debate about whom to sacrifice, not least amongst those who were in consideration.)

Some tribes were nomadic, but others lived in tepees. Tepees were made of animal skins and/or blankets wrapped around wooden poles and were typically about 10 feet in diameter. No doubt, a man’s tepee was his castle.

[SeekAndFind]

Different tribes probably had somewhat differing views on homosexuality and abortion, but I’ll bet none of them thought they were good things. Or maybe they did. That might explain why there were, by some estimates, as few as 7 million “indigenous” people-- in what is now the United States-- “before white people came to this land.” However, there were no Planned Parenthood clinics around at the time, nor any need for interior decorators, so I doubt this was the case.

[Codeflier]

The perpetual myth of the “noble savage”.

[NorthMountain]

Simon Moya-Smith

A hyphenated man is even worse than a hyphenated woman ...

[Irenic]

You suppose but you do not know. It’s just your opinion and we know what that is worth.

[glennaro]

Just another guilt-ridden “white supremicist” ... and, because he’s obsessed with race, a raving, dedicated racist who should be called out for his blatant racism.

[PGR88]

who is also a lecturer at the University of Colorado at Denver,

this tripe is what is taught in liberal arts and social sciences programs in American universities today.

[MrRelevant]

Yikes , indians slaughtered each other for hundreds of years before white folks arrived. They continued their nomadic savagery for hundreds of years after the white men arrived. It was the white man who brought innovation and civilization to the nation. Sorry.

[ClearCase_guy]

Yeah. Anyone who has actually looked into it realizes that the savages were pretty ... savage.

And putting primitive Stone Age people — who weren’t even capable of inventing the wheel — on some sort of pedestal so that we can admire them and learn from them ... it’s stupid.

[MCSETots]

Am I missing something? If life is so horrible for these “woke” people, what’s keeping them from “easing the pain” by killing themselves? ? ?

Not advocating, just asking . . .

[Montana Confederate]

There were no wheels either.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

LOL. Does Moya-Smith know that those noble savages used to raid neighboring tribes for women and then rape them or force them to be the conquiring tribe’s wives (a/k/a slaves)? And that they killed the kids who could not be made to work?

Btw, never trust a dude with a hyphenated last name unless both of the names are Latino.

[FlingWingFlyer]

What does this retarded college diploma holder know? He doesn’t look that old and just from his mug, I can tell the boy never read a history book in his life. He reminds me of the “Hot Chocolate In Pajamas Boy” who was so popular with the far left at one time. Sorry sonny. Those white people put the American flag on the moon. KMA moron.

[Karliner]

soy boy

[suekas]

Is he not aware that some tribes were very hostile and aggressive to other tribes? Enslaving many captives.

[V_TWIN]

“Before white people came to this land, there were no jails, no homelessness, no laws against homosexuality or abortion”

That’s is without a doubt THE absolute dumbest thing I’ve heard in a long long time.

[Leaning Right]

Odd that the author never mentioned how the Aztecs enslaved neighboring tribes and cut the hearts out of living captives.

Maybe he’ll cover that in his next article.

[XRdsRev]

I guess this fellow doesn’t realize that Dances with Wolves was fiction, not a documentary.

PS - tepees were only used by some western nomadic tribes. In most other areas the indigenous people who established permanent or seasonal communities lived in long houses or bark huts.

[Bon of Babble]

Before White people came to this land - there was no electricity - or air conditioning, cars, jet airplanes, first world medicine, TVs, cell phones, clean water - and all the other comforts of life this idiot enjoys.

She needs to give up everything White people have created given to the world - and go back to cold and dark “native ways” - and hope they don’t kill her in many of their inter tribal wars.

[Starboard]

Funny how peoples from the world over desperately want to move to a country that white people supposedly ruined.

[panzerkamphwageneinz]

This woman never met a Commanche...lol