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[–] Bye@lemmy.world 50 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

They, like most other people in the world, had slavery, genocide, theft, the death penalty, and all sorts of other bad things. None of this excuses colonialism, at all. But to pretend that native peoples were some kind of wonderful noble savages is very very racist in and of itself. Even this comment is fairly racist because I just implied some kind of homogenous culture in North American indigenous peoples, which was obviously not the case.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but they didnt have a single instance of movie piracy.

YoU wOUldNt dOwNLoAd a HorSe

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.ca 7 points 8 months ago

The self flagellation is a bit much, but I get it.

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I mean, the quote is from a first nations person. The only one “pretending that native peoples were some kind of wonderful noble savage” is the person the quote is attributed to. A holy man of the Lakota tribe. Calling him discussing his tribe racist is…weird.

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 months ago

Comparison of "we" versus "our white brothers" is a racial one and not a tribal one.