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What Are Steven Crowder's Ideological Reasons for Denying Genocide of Indigenous People? [1]
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Date: 2022-06-09 00:00:00
American fascists by definition deny genocide, and that is so with Steven Crowder.
CROWDER: Give all the land back. Well, we don't want whole country to look like every episode of Cops. Ever driven through tribal land recently? Does it look like they're living off the – you could. You could just live off the land. What does Comanche mean? Land of a thousand trailer parks? Have you guys driven through? At a certain point you're like, well, this is what you've done with it. Why would we give it back to you? Also, why would we give back any of it? We won. I know you don't like it but that did happen. And you tried to win because you were actually killing their ancestors, and you were raping their ancestors, and you were enslaving their ancestors, and then we came here and, you know, we tried to purchase land from you and in some cases like Manhattan and Canarsie we have a bill of sale and then you came back anyway. And so we had to start fighting you.
"Give all the land back?...We won” is a method of Genocide Denial resembling this.
5. Rationalize the deaths as the result of tribal conflict. Perpetrators stress that the circumstances are the inevitable consequences to the history of relationships between the perpetrator and victim groups.
x x YouTube Video And Crowder also blames victims of genocide, indigenous people in this instance, by saying "you were actually killing their ancestors, and you were raping their ancestors, and you were enslaving their ancestors,..." To the contrary, the differences in making war between the predators and the prey may not be the topic here, but let’s summarize them - there are significant differences.
Unlearning the Language of Conquest Scholars Expose Anti-Indianism in America. "Peaceful verses Warlike Societies" essay by James Demeo. p. 150 - 151. "This evidence, drawn from history, archeology, and anthropology, speaks clearly: The New World prior to Columbus was a far less violent place than the Old World. And it can be argued that, in spite of many terrible events which followed after Columbus, the New World remained a less violent place all the way down through the centuries because of its geographical isolation from the more violent Saharasian empires...This summary suggests the general vindication of the vast majority of Native American values and peoples as standing on the peace – making side of history. Certainly, not all Indigenous American cultures fit the peaceful images given in Dances with Wolves, but it is not an exaggeration to say that the majority did
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233988110_Peaceful_Versus_Warlike_Societies_in_Pre-Columbian_America_What_Does_Archaeology_and_Anthropology_Tell_Us
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