America's genocide

But... This could make some white children uncomfortable! So we probably shouldn't mention it in the history books.

I get into a bit of an internet slap-fight about this topic here: https://slrpnk.net/post/13729485/11259214 My sleep-deprived brain was hysterically lost, and I thought I was replying to different post. Despite this, I think it fits well here.

Have you met any trump supporters? This is them, where bison skulls are metaphors for good works.

To be fair, that is an impressive mountain of skulls.

yeah, the intentional extirpation of a species is pretty heinous, but i mean... look at what the Dutch were doing that century. or what was happening at plantations and mines around the world. hell, compared to what's happening at mines and plantations and factories around the world today.

makes you realize it's not really worth comparing evils beyond a certain point. it'll only serve to make you feel bad and maybe hurt someone's feelings for no reason.

I will say that there were indigenous American tribes that weren't much better in terms of how they treated bison. Some hunted them pretty sustainably, but the Blackfoot believed that if you didn't kill the whole herd, the rest of them would learn to be wary of humans. So they drove the whole herd off a cliff. They only harvested a small portion of that herd when they were done, which is why there are just massive piles of bones at the bases of those cliffs.

Oh man, then don't look up what happened to the people that used to hunt these things.

I wish I could change the community name. I took over when it was abandoned, and this took the name from the Reddit sub.

Agree, But there is not any active History Images community.