Re: Holocaust denial
You stated that the US has murdered millions of Native Americans. No historian supports this adding to your long list of ignorance on most things American.
I take great pride in my heritage and it is important to me to know my family's history. We have written accounts from our ancestors that took part in the Trail of Tears. As usual you have never lived on or visited this country, been to a reservation or probably even met a tribes member but feel that you are more informed on the topic. You read selected works on the US. I live it.
The most basic failure of your analogy is that most of the Native American deaths from disease had already happened before conquest was even a thought. The first explorers had no idea they were exposing the Natives to diseases they had no immune defenses to and being explorers or refugees in small groups surely weren't intending to use this as a setup for military conquests a hundred + years later. The crux of genocide is a systematic intent. The deaths from European disease in North America were as random as the ones from the Black Plague. Both lacked an intent to kill a group or a systematic methodology.
By the time the colonials and later Americans were engaging the Native Tribes in military action the native population had been ravaged by disease for 100 years. The deaths from these conquests are no where near the Holocaust numbers and more importantly are no different than any other deaths from any other wars of that time.
Most bad government has grown out of too much government. Thomas Jefferson
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