@Deglassco

Thanks, Dr. Glassco, for telling us (specifically, me) about the Pequot massacre.

There are so many true stories of humans' atrocities throughout history. It can be depressing to think about this bad history, but I believe we must face it with courage and honesty. Otherwise, we burn books, close libraries, naively tell lies about our families, and enact our own atrocities with enthusiasm.

There's a vast store of the admirable in human history, too. We mustn't forget that.

@oldclumsy_nowmad @Deglassco
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true stories of humans' #atrocities throughout history. It can be depressing to think about this bad history, but I believe we must face it with courage and honesty

TRUE, we need to think about it, another example is the #MongolEmpire.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/05/the-mongols-built-an-empire-with-one-technological-breakthrough/
About 15,000 years before some Asians moved to #NorthAmerica and in the 1600s #genocide repeated

@felis_catus_domesticus (nice image)
The tools change, but it's the ⭕mentally that never changes

@6g @oldclumsy_nowmad @Deglassco

Indigenous American tribes were hardly kind to each other when engaging in warfare amongst themselves. The Powhatan cozied up to the English and tolerated their presence partly as a hedge against other rival tribes in the region. Indians were not stupid, nor were they innocent naked childish babes in the woods. Nor were they purely and solely victims. They engaged in brutal warfare with the people around them, practiced subjugation and exploitation on those around them, thought politically and were cunning and calculating in their own way just like any European of that time. The slight technological edge possessed by Europeans ensured that they eventually gained the upper hand over the Indian nations, but at many points in history, this too was an open contest with no foregone conclusions of the type that historians and those who would be historians, and would wish to speak in the voice of an historian, would like to pretend are real when judged from the vantage point of the present. Smallpox killed more Indians than (European) settlers ever did.

@felis_catus_domesticus @6g @Deglassco

Whataboutism doesn't change this simple principle:

Your ancestors did stinky things. My ancestors did stinky things. Everybody's ancestors did stinky things.

That doesn't mean doing stinky things is okay.