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Wiz Imp

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8. I know what it means. I also know it has come to be associated with the genocide

Reply to JCMach1 (Reply #7)

Mon Jan 20, 2025, 03:54 PM

Jan 2025

Of native Americans. How do think they accomplished that territorial expansion? By killing everything and everyone in their path.

In this day and age especially it should not be viewed as a positive term

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