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marmar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-12-09 08:50 PM Original message |
"It's really easy to build a holocaust museum that condemns Germans. It's another issue to build.... |
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stuball111 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-12-09 09:04 PM Response to Original message |
1. Columbus kinda makes Limpnuts look like a saint! n/t |
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stevedeshazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-12-09 09:05 PM Response to Original message |
2. K & R |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-12-09 09:08 PM Response to Original message |
3. Bartholome de las Casas was one of the first to speak truth to power in the New World. |
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intheflow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-12-09 09:12 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. I studied him in seminary about 5 years ago. |
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Libertas1776 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-12-09 09:24 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. Of course, if I am not mistaken, he was |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-13-09 09:03 PM Response to Reply #6 |
46. And in typical fanatical right wing fashion, turned truth upside down so that it was ... |
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intheflow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-12-09 09:09 PM Response to Original message |
4. Big ol' K&R to promote Columbus Day being overturned. |
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MisterP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-12-09 09:11 PM Response to Original message |
5. this is interesting for me, not just because I'm a Latin American historian, |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 04:18 AM Response to Reply #5 |
67. "Enlightened/Bourbon policies of deliberate impoverishment." - could you expand on that a bit? |
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a la izquierda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 06:40 AM Response to Reply #67 |
86. Not sure what he specifically meant |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 07:52 AM Response to Reply #86 |
96. thanks. similar to britain's policies with its colonies, i guess? |
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a la izquierda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 11:16 AM Response to Reply #96 |
100. Yeah, and the most egregious... |
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a la izquierda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 06:49 AM Response to Reply #5 |
90. What, exactly, do you study? |
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OwnedByFerrets (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-12-09 09:13 PM Response to Original message |
7. This is the day that Americans unwittingly celebrate a |
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snagglepuss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-12-09 11:57 PM Response to Original message |
9. The mistake is having separate holocaust museums to commemorate |
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Behind the Aegis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-13-09 12:23 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. What are you talking about? |
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Confusious (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-13-09 12:54 AM Response to Reply #10 |
12. Probably that |
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Lance_Boyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-13-09 02:40 PM Response to Reply #12 |
33. Armenian genocide is more recent than WWII. n/t |
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mopinko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-13-09 06:51 PM Response to Reply #33 |
38. right, right. that i why hitler said 'no one remembers the armenians' |
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Alamuti Lotus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 10:10 PM Response to Reply #33 |
137. No it wasn't.. |
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snagglepuss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-13-09 01:20 AM Response to Reply #10 |
13. I'm talking about Hedges. Hedges does not seem to have an issue |
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Behind the Aegis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-13-09 01:28 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Thank you for the explanation. |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-13-09 01:50 AM Response to Reply #13 |
15. I disagree that it was ethnic cleansing |
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Maru Kitteh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-13-09 02:18 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. So you believe the deliberate policies of extermination, deprivation and oppression |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-13-09 03:23 AM Response to Reply #16 |
18. what deliberate policies of extermination, deprivation and oppression? |
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Maru Kitteh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-13-09 10:07 AM Response to Reply #18 |
29. If you don't know of any deliberate policies of extermination it can only be because you've tried |
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NOLALady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-13-09 05:30 PM Response to Reply #18 |
35. I was not aware that |
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blonndee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-13-09 09:41 PM Response to Reply #35 |
49. No shit! Glad you said it. |
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Maru Kitteh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 01:01 AM Response to Reply #49 |
62. Ignorance would almost be excusable. What we've seen here is overt, PROUD racism. |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 03:40 AM Response to Reply #62 |
63. speaking as the fuckwad in question |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 04:29 AM Response to Reply #63 |
70. The fact is, the US gov't engaged in genocidal policies. The simple fact of |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 05:31 AM Response to Reply #70 |
81. none of those are equivalent to genocide |
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a la izquierda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 06:43 AM Response to Reply #81 |
88. Bury my heart at wounded knee... |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 03:45 PM Response to Reply #88 |
106. that's what I thought too after reading it |
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a la izquierda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 07:50 PM Response to Reply #106 |
116. Read Mann's 1491 |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 07:32 AM Response to Reply #81 |
93. bullshit. |
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Duende azul (608 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-13-09 05:55 PM Response to Reply #18 |
36. "there was never a deliberate policy of extermination" ? |
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snagglepuss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-13-09 02:46 AM Response to Reply #15 |
17. I have no problem using large scale planned slaughter of a targeted group |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-13-09 03:37 AM Response to Reply #17 |
19. right, like it's only about semantics |
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proteus_lives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-13-09 03:56 AM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Great post! But people don't like to hear that. |
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The Straight Story (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-13-09 09:39 AM Response to Reply #20 |
27. Glad a few other people get that |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 04:34 AM Response to Reply #20 |
71. The fact that the tribes fought each other doesn't negate the genocidal policy of the US gov't, |
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proteus_lives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 01:26 PM Response to Reply #71 |
101. I'm not negating anything. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 03:13 PM Response to Reply #101 |
103. if you're not negating, why the need to say "but indians killed each other too!" |
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snagglepuss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-13-09 02:34 PM Response to Reply #19 |
31. Too bad you don't read as well as you google. My comments about |
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Duende azul (608 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-13-09 04:58 PM Response to Reply #19 |
34. And how does that in any way make the European actions less genocidal? |
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elleng (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 04:15 AM Response to Reply #19 |
65. Maybe not. Just a plain old war for territory and commerce. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-13-09 07:31 AM Response to Reply #15 |
21. Mortality on the Trail of Tears exceeded 20% over merely six months. That's not genocidal? |
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elleng (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 04:18 AM Response to Reply #21 |
66. Genocide is |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 04:46 AM Response to Reply #66 |
74. yes, and? the US gov't forcibly removed entire tribes from their land |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 06:42 AM Response to Reply #66 |
87. And, in fact, exactly such a policy was followed. People were repeatedly told that |
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elleng (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 07:49 PM Response to Reply #87 |
115. Most don't look, of course, |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-13-09 07:33 AM Response to Reply #15 |
22. ... ""The removal has taken two weeks and of the 461 Indians who began this miserable trek, only 277 |
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winyanstaz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 12:22 AM Response to Reply #22 |
56. It was a total of 17,000 Cherokees and about 2,000 slaves that were moved |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 06:26 AM Response to Reply #56 |
85. Did you post in the wrong place? Post you're replying to links to accounts of Calif Indian agents |
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winyanstaz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 02:21 PM Response to Reply #85 |
102. sorry...I was replying to the total number of cherokee moved...from many areas.. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-13-09 07:52 AM Response to Reply #15 |
23. " ... Some years previous he had been presented with a fine American flag by Colonel Greenwood, |
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PVnRT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-13-09 08:30 AM Response to Reply #15 |
24. "Historical revisionism." Unbelievable. |
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donco6 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 08:11 AM Response to Reply #24 |
98. For him? Not at all. |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 04:39 PM Response to Reply #98 |
108. it is |
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Maru Kitteh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 01:51 AM Response to Reply #108 |
124. Poor widdle you. Want to make a + contribution? Start by rebuting Hannah Bell's post here: |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 11:39 AM Response to Reply #124 |
130. you think that would be positive? |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-13-09 08:36 AM Response to Reply #15 |
25. So what was it then - |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-13-09 08:26 PM Response to Reply #25 |
42. it was warfare, often not instigated by the settlers |
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winyanstaz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-13-09 11:46 PM Response to Reply #42 |
52. often not instigated by the settlers...as if stealing their land was not an instigation in itself? |
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winyanstaz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-13-09 11:47 PM Response to Reply #52 |
53. It was the whiteman that started the practice of scalping as well... |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 04:37 AM Response to Reply #52 |
73. stealing land is such a European concept |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 07:43 AM Response to Reply #73 |
94. "stealing land is such a European concept" = which the european settlers were guilty of. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 03:40 PM Response to Reply #73 |
104. " ... All the Nez Perce made friends with Lewis and Clark and agreed to let them pass through their |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 01:28 AM Response to Reply #104 |
123. the europeans had the concept of ownership. they stole land, by their own mores. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 06:40 AM Response to Reply #123 |
128. Did you post in wrong place? Post you're replying to links to quotes from Nez Perce "Chief Joseph" |
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naaman fletcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 10:57 PM Response to Reply #123 |
141. I agree it is genocide, |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 04:49 AM Response to Reply #42 |
75. If an entire tribe is wiped out deliberately, it's genocide. What don't you get? |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 05:49 AM Response to Reply #75 |
82. what I don't get is comparing the slaughter of 700 to the slaughter of 6 million |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 06:57 AM Response to Reply #82 |
92. if it's just a small ethnic group that's deliberately wiped out, it's not genocide? |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 04:32 PM Response to Reply #92 |
107. bab, bab, babbling |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 01:27 AM Response to Reply #107 |
122. "labor camps" always have excess mortality v. "normal" populations. |
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winyanstaz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 12:15 PM Response to Reply #82 |
132. The Catholic Church also murdered thousands of Native Americans. |
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Maru Kitteh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 02:04 AM Response to Reply #42 |
125. "not instigated by the settlers" ????? I'm going to build a vacation house in your front yard |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-13-09 08:24 PM Response to Reply #15 |
41. You disagree that the American West was ethnically cleansed... |
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Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-13-09 09:34 AM Response to Reply #13 |
26. good point...none of my world/european history books in school EVER told me about |
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CrispyQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-13-09 11:10 AM Response to Reply #9 |
30. +1 -nt |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-13-09 09:06 PM Response to Reply #9 |
47. Think you have an excellent point there -- understand what you mean... |
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wickerwoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 03:44 PM Response to Reply #9 |
105. The Holocaust Museum in DC |
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snagglepuss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 08:19 PM Response to Reply #105 |
117. That is a good start but hardly adequate. What about the victims of the Japanese |
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wickerwoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 01:09 AM Response to Reply #117 |
121. There's a museum in Nanjing |
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Number23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-13-09 12:30 AM Response to Original message |
11. K&R'd |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-13-09 09:42 AM Response to Original message |
28. K&R |
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Orwellian_Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-13-09 02:36 PM Response to Original message |
32. K&R |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-13-09 06:42 PM Response to Original message |
37. As has been said before...history is always written by the victors. |
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elleng (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 04:29 AM Response to Reply #37 |
69. and then not taught. |
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Techn0Girl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-13-09 07:34 PM Response to Original message |
39. "It's really easy to build a holocaust museum that condemns Germans.... |
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still_one (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-13-09 11:40 PM Response to Reply #39 |
51. Thank-You, I had no idea what the OP was trying to convey with that statement /nt |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-13-09 07:49 PM Response to Original message |
40. Howard Zinn had that passage from Columbus's log in PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES |
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DireStrike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 06:34 PM Response to Reply #40 |
111. Everyone should read that book. |
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BoneDaddy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-13-09 08:44 PM Response to Original message |
43. The difference is |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-13-09 09:17 PM Response to Reply #43 |
48. Patriarchy/organized patriarchal religion is still the license for much of this violence . . . |
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winyanstaz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 12:26 AM Response to Reply #48 |
58. thank you..excellent post. |
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Kaleva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 12:28 AM Response to Reply #48 |
59. However, the Native americans were quite busy in stealing land from each other |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 04:53 AM Response to Reply #59 |
76. yes, & the jews were undercutting each other in business deals in germany, so why not take their |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 06:29 PM Response to Reply #59 |
109. And "white" people don't steal.... don't lie... don't cheat ....AND DON'T STEAL LAND???? |
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winyanstaz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 12:10 PM Response to Reply #59 |
131. Just so you know..by far the majority of territories had been settled long ago.. |
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Kaleva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 11:49 PM Response to Reply #131 |
142. The Aztecs weren't known as happy campers,... |
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winyanstaz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-16-09 03:56 AM Response to Reply #142 |
144. That is true..and the Crows were also known to raid.... |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 08:08 AM Response to Reply #48 |
97. "Germany was 70% Catholic." Highly doubtful. There was that little episode with |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 06:38 PM Response to Reply #97 |
112. Thank you . . . |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 09:57 PM Response to Reply #97 |
118. Correction: about 33% of Germans were Catholics -- |
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BoneDaddy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 09:00 AM Response to Reply #48 |
99. That is some logic there |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 06:43 PM Response to Reply #99 |
113. There's no logic in denial . . . who else but white men dropped atomic weapons? |
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deaniac21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 10:51 PM Response to Reply #113 |
119. They were cheering in Nanking. |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 12:12 AM Response to Reply #119 |
120. ...but I guess China never worries that we might nuke them? |
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Crunchy Frog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 02:10 AM Response to Reply #113 |
126. I wonder what Japan would have done with atomic weapons |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 10:07 PM Response to Reply #126 |
135. Unfortunately, WE had them and we used them . . . |
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NOLALady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 11:18 AM Response to Reply #113 |
129. Don't forget the myth of the black men |
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BoneDaddy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 12:50 PM Response to Reply #129 |
134. Straw man argument |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 10:10 PM Response to Reply #129 |
136. Right . . . and relevant reminder of patriarchal projection onto others . . . |
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BoneDaddy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 10:54 PM Response to Reply #136 |
140. You are in love with your own pathetic |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-16-09 03:46 PM Response to Reply #140 |
146. Your posts are "cesspools" . . . and you're on "ignore" -- |
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BoneDaddy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 12:49 PM Response to Reply #113 |
133. I never said |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 10:19 PM Response to Reply #133 |
138. "We did drop the bomb" . . . but the Japanese made us do it -- !!! |
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BoneDaddy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 10:53 PM Response to Reply #138 |
139. Were you born ignorant or did you choose it? |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-16-09 03:42 PM Response to Reply #139 |
145. Who is tossing about personal attacks to avoid debate? YOU or me? |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 06:31 PM Response to Reply #48 |
110. Self edit: that should read "1,100 years of Jewish Ghettos run by Vatican" . . . |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-13-09 08:46 PM Response to Original message |
44. Will we ever face the truth of this in America . . .??? |
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MellowDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-13-09 09:00 PM Response to Original message |
45. Who's "our ancestors"? |
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still_one (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-13-09 11:37 PM Response to Original message |
50. The purpose of the holocaust museum ISN'T to condemn Germans. Where are you getting that from? /nt |
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Kaleva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-13-09 11:53 PM Response to Original message |
54. Slavery and exploitation were here long before Columbus arrived |
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winyanstaz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 12:24 AM Response to Reply #54 |
57. It is true a few tribes did war and did have slaves. |
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Kaleva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 12:32 AM Response to Reply #57 |
60. And not all Europeans were bad apples either. |
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winyanstaz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 12:35 AM Response to Reply #60 |
61. I agree..not all europeans were bad people either. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 07:47 AM Response to Reply #60 |
95. it has nothing to do with whether individuals are "good apples", it has to do with the policy of |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 04:57 AM Response to Reply #54 |
77. you really want to compare the "slavery" of american tribes to the for-profit |
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JonLP24 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 06:20 AM Response to Reply #77 |
84. It's not the same of what the US did |
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Kaleva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-16-09 12:00 AM Response to Reply #77 |
143. All slavery is for profit in some form. |
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a la izquierda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 06:47 AM Response to Reply #54 |
89. Yeah, but it was different. |
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winyanstaz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 12:15 AM Response to Original message |
55. another thing not talked about is what happened to many native american women... |
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elleng (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 03:59 AM Response to Reply #55 |
64. Saw Dances with Wolves tonight. |
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Maru Kitteh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-15-09 02:13 AM Response to Reply #55 |
127. Thank you. n/t |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 04:26 AM Response to Original message |
68. oh, please. this is such a stupid comparison. And as others have pointed |
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elleng (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 04:34 AM Response to Reply #68 |
72. Not even by implication? |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 05:00 AM Response to Reply #72 |
78. um, the "implication" being that the nazis deliberately killed millions? |
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elleng (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 05:09 AM Response to Reply #78 |
79. UM, I was responding to |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 05:19 AM Response to Reply #79 |
80. I understand what you were responding to. My point - in response to your suggestion the holocaust |
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elleng (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 07:46 PM Response to Reply #80 |
114. Now I understand. |
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JonLP24 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 05:54 AM Response to Original message |
83. Error: you can only recommend threads which were started in the past 24 hours |
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a la izquierda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-14-09 06:51 AM Response to Original message |
91. I don't want to get into the holocaust itself, |
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