>You keep harping on it as if the disease caused the genocide. It didn't. It was european colonization.
European colonization brought disease, but disease spread west faster than settlers, or even explorers.
Disease is the cause of the Native American population decline. Without disease the settlers wouldn't have been able to push the remaining Native peoples off of their lands. In the vast majority of cases disease was a byproduct--the settlers didn't intend for hundreds of thousands of people thousands of miles from them to die.
There were many cases where Europeans intentionally killed Native Americans, in some cases intentionally spreading disease.
You seem to have a very difficult time with nuance. Yes European colonizers caused millions of deaths, but the vast majority were caused indirectly without the knowledge of the colonizers. Yes the Civil War caused the highest death toll in US history, but only because both sides were considered American (despite the fact that they weren't American during the war).
>Listen, you are a genocide denier.
Please try to be a little more civil. This is hacker news not reddit.
>And now you are arguing against the civil war facts. I'm finished here.
I never argued against any facts you presented. My argument is that these facts are useless without context.
> I'm finished here.
I doubt it. I'm fairly certain you're going to reply to this.
European colonization brought disease, but disease spread west faster than settlers, or even explorers.
Disease is the cause of the Native American population decline. Without disease the settlers wouldn't have been able to push the remaining Native peoples off of their lands. In the vast majority of cases disease was a byproduct--the settlers didn't intend for hundreds of thousands of people thousands of miles from them to die.
There were many cases where Europeans intentionally killed Native Americans, in some cases intentionally spreading disease.
You seem to have a very difficult time with nuance. Yes European colonizers caused millions of deaths, but the vast majority were caused indirectly without the knowledge of the colonizers. Yes the Civil War caused the highest death toll in US history, but only because both sides were considered American (despite the fact that they weren't American during the war).
>Listen, you are a genocide denier.
Please try to be a little more civil. This is hacker news not reddit.
>And now you are arguing against the civil war facts. I'm finished here.
I never argued against any facts you presented. My argument is that these facts are useless without context.
> I'm finished here.
I doubt it. I'm fairly certain you're going to reply to this.