but it was horrific. However, it's absurd to say that a genocide that started in 1492 (almost 300 years before the US existed) is all our fault. We definitely bear responsibility for the things we did as a country, especially in the 1800s, but to blame us for the actions of the Spaniards centuries before we existed as a nation is absurd. Further, the article talks about all of North America as if it were the United States. Somehow, I think the people of Mexico and Canada would disagree.
As another example of us getting falsely blamed, remember the case of the smallpox infected blankets given to a tribe to make them sick? Well, that was done in the 1760s by a British officer named Amherst (the college is named after him.) There wasn't a US then, either.
You have to really doubt the honesty of people who would put together such a list and not include the tens of millions killed in the Soviet Union and in communist China. And to ignore the atrocities Belgium committed in the Congo is just moronic revisionism.
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I honestly don't know about it being in the top 5 or 10...
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- World's worst genocide
- Most American Aborigines died of European illnesses, not deliberate warfare or genocide.
- re: World's worst genocide
- re: It was a barbaric time
- clearly a biased list, but
- re: clearly a biased list
- Lets look at your irreavent link....
- :) Tom I posted that for the sole reason that I knew you would reply exactly as you did- THANKS FOR PLAYING, KIDDO... a challenge to partisans of either ilk
- The Native American genocide counts as starting with Columbus.
- I honestly don't know about it being in the top 5 or 10...
- re: clearly a biased list