01-28-2016, 09:15 AM
(01-27-2016, 03:08 PM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: Two words: "spicy language."
It is a pathetic attempt to garner attention by using sensationalism despite the facts. You of all people should understand.
Michael Medved cited Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel to note millions of Native Americans died of disease. That's true. However, Michael Medved conveniently ignores Jared Diamond's assertion the Native Americans were "exterminated by European colonists" on page 15 of the Prologue. I guess Medved didn't read past page 14.
According to Dictionary.com genocide is defined as as the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group. The fact that millions of Native Americans died of disease (at least some of which were due to deliberate biological warfare) does nothing to change the fact the survivors were deliberately and systematically exterminated IOT promote European colonialism.
Medved further states, "A nation ashamed of its past will fear its future." I love that quote because it illustrates how f#$&ing stupid Medved is to anyone with a lick of common sense. Unless, of course, Medved is proud of slavery. Let me break it down for you, Lucie. As someone pretending to be a psuedo-Christian, I'm sure you are psuedo-ashamed of your sins, but that doesn't mean you fear your future. Does it? No, of course not. That is why it is stupid.
Medved is a walking encyclopedia. On occasion I am able to listen to his program, and I've never heard anyone that is able to rattle off statistical data and historical fact from the top of his head no matter what subject is being discussed quite like him. Medved is spot on in this article. Quite a remarkable guy, so for you to call him stupid doesn't do a whole lot for your credibility.
Medved prefaces the article by acknowledging the suffering of Native Americans, and anyone with a lick of common sense would tell you that Medveds aim was not to dismiss the mistreatment of Native Americans. Being ashamed of it to the level that the self loathing leftist "hate America first" crowd wants everyone to is what Medved is addressing. If we're not sulking over our "evil" past, then we ourselves must be evil.
Aside from the fact that the Native Americans stole this land from other Native Americans through constant tribal wars, the conquest of the Native Americans by whitey was not the first time one group of people conquered another.
As Medved points out:
On six continents, such shifting populations – with countless cruel invasions and occupations and social destructions and replacements - have been the rule rather than the exception.
Lets see, in Europe alone there were the Goths, the Visigoths, Vandals, Gauls, Franks, Saxons, and a slew of other barbarian peoples that by conquering others may have had something to do with the formation of the European countries we see today. I don't know. I'm not an expert in the history of Western Civ.
So if you're of French descent for example, perhaps you should be ashamed because some group may have been wiped out by another so that France may exist.
And those illegal Mexicans you have a soft spot for, they wouldn't exist if it wasn't for the Spanish conquests of Central America.
You people ignore the Spaniards because they don't count, although Caucasian, they don't quite fit into your anti white narrative.
The discovery of the new world and the founding of United States should have marked the last and final episode of one mans territorial conquest over another.
Too bad guys like Hitler didn't see it that way.
