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Changelog: On Torture

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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)11/04/2010 3:48:42 pm PDT

re: #333 LudwigVanQuixote

No, America’s genocide was not more successful. Disease was the primary killer of the American Indians, and that disease had come long before we did.

Furthermore, the Susquehanna were not killed by citizens of the United States, but by colonists before we were a nation. There was no national government policy of eradicating them. Further furthermore, they were a single village.

There is not a comparison. what was done to the American Indians was terrible, but it its its own story of brutality and tears and awfulness, and a very, very different story from that of the Nazis.