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[–] Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (12 children)

All i'm saying is there's no violence that westerners have done that wasn't already done at some other time before they arrived. The difference is the distance, the scale and of course the cultural and ethnic differences. I've found that the more different the dominating group is from the victim group the more well atrocities are remembered. It's still ethnically visible for hundreds upon hundreds of years. Like for instance the Aztecs were extremely brutal in wiping out other tribes and enslavement as well as torture but no one really complains about that today. It's all a wash. Their people and the people they tormented are hard to tell apart now in contrast to people of Spanish dissent and of course to this day there's a white preference in the region. It's just easier to see and draw lines when people look more visibly different.

[–] Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

No, the difference is the level of violence. They also brought germ warfare and gunpowder.

[–] Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That isn't really what I was arguing but if you want to change the discussion then I'm open to it.

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