American Holocaust

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30. A few points:

There was some armed resitance by Jews that was just as effective as armed resistance by native Americans. Which is to say, not at all effective in the long run. Check out the seige of the Warsaw ghetto, for instance.

We (America) did, in fact, round indians up in camps where they almost all died. The fact we didn't use cynanide gas notwithstanding.

The commandant of Andersonville was the only Confederate we executed though his death camp was more a disease and starvation camp. The distinction is not genrally considered a great one.

We herded indian tribes, following military conquest, into penned areas with no food, no game and rife with disease. We had no intention that the populations of those human preserves grow.

It was managed policy and resulted in the predictable deaths of almost all of the target race... a distinction without a difference.

There were certainly acts of murder by indians against europeans, but since most were against settlers on land the indians had every sensible reason to consider their's it is hard to paint it as agressive or unjustified, in the way people usually deal with having their land invaded.

There is no indication, for instance, that if the settlers had retreated that the indians would have followed them back to Europe to murder them.

This is not a European bad Indain good thing. A lot of native americans were some of the worst people ever. Torture fetishists, arch-racists, etc.. And the worst environmental stewards EVER! They wiped out two continents worth of large mammals in the blink of a geologic eye.

People suck in some ways and native Americans deserve the full dignity of personhood -- they were fully capable of sucking.