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No, not really. There's a lot of whitewashing of US history, especially in textbooks. If you ask the average American they wouldn't even call anything the US did "genocide."
I recommend reading Lies My Teacher Told Me.
That's what I mean. The US is built on genocide and colonization just like "israel", but they try to not be open about it.
Oh no that's new. Back when the genocide was in a more active phase and there were "Indian Wars" they were very explicit about it.
But today, you're right, they just teach a few key atrocities and handwave the other hundred million. I must have misread lol
I think that's just the different stages of settler-colonial development.
Go back far enough and everyone is where they are because their ancestors killed whomever was there first. Not that it justifies anything, but it's genocides all the way down. Even native Americans wiped out a prior civilization if you go back far enough.