It’s worth noting that during the Korean War the US killed 15-20% of North Koreans. That’s a higher percentage killed than many genocides and much of it was exacted through deliberate targeting of civilian infrastructure yet it’s almost never discussed as a genocide. We hanged Nazis for lesser crimes at Nuremberg
Polling of turtle island indigenous peoples indicate that a good majority still prefer the term Indians. You can read Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz All the real indians died off and 20 other myths for the reasons.
Source for that 75% claim? Wondering how it’s calculated since I’ve heard ~90% died to plagues the settlers brought, but since 75% is below that it seems like it’s calculating something else. Is it referring to some specific time period?
Like the Wikipedia article says 10-100M and up to 95% died from plagues brought over from ~1500-1618, but I can’t tell if the sources are any good/reliable.
Does this count or does it mean that of those who remained, a further 75% got genocided? Or is it referring to some specific even later genocide.
Didn’t the US recently celebrate the 250th anniversary of genocides?
It’s worth noting that during the Korean War the US killed 15-20% of North Koreans. That’s a higher percentage killed than many genocides and much of it was exacted through deliberate targeting of civilian infrastructure yet it’s almost never discussed as a genocide. We hanged Nazis for lesser crimes at Nuremberg
I didn’t realise there was an American Indian genocide, although I did hear a lot about an indigenous American genocide.
Polling of turtle island indigenous peoples indicate that a good majority still prefer the term Indians. You can read Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz All the real indians died off and 20 other myths for the reasons.
Interesting, thanks.
Source for that 75% claim? Wondering how it’s calculated since I’ve heard ~90% died to plagues the settlers brought, but since 75% is below that it seems like it’s calculating something else. Is it referring to some specific time period?
It is possible 90% of certain tribes on the East Coast died of plague. However the vast majority of native Americans were slaughtered other ways.
Over what time period are we talking though?
Like the Wikipedia article says 10-100M and up to 95% died from plagues brought over from ~1500-1618, but I can’t tell if the sources are any good/reliable.
Does this count or does it mean that of those who remained, a further 75% got genocided? Or is it referring to some specific even later genocide.
Genocide began well before independence from Britain.
yeah, but the americans loved it so much, they declared independence so they could do it faster
True, lol