Originally Posted By: Halo82
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Yeah, I'm sure they'd be happier in teepees in the middle of wheatfields waiting around for a buncha dead buffalo to show up.

Unrealistic? For sure. The only way for Native Americans to have preserved their culture as it was would have been to have never encountered Europeans on this continent in the first place. That means no United States. And while that might make some people happy (I don't think you're one of them), it just plain didn't happen that way. Now we can pout about it all we want, but until Doc Brown rolls up in the DeLorean it's not gonna change. From the initial post of the Thanksgiving thread it sounds like some Native Americans have dealt with it better than a number of posters in this thread. And if you asked most of them, the answers you get would probably be along the lines of yeah, whitey screwed us over, and that sucked, but at least we're not living in the Copper Age anymore! Which I could live with. Groups of people have been putting the hurt on each other for most if not all of our nation's history. We can either have people who weren't the direct offenders wringing their hands about it and incessantly apologizing to people who weren't the direct recipients for the rest of time, or we can attempt to deal with it, put it aside, and all get on with our lives and maybe try to be friends. I know which one I like more.


Sammitch also said-

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Maybe you shouldn't be forcing your morality on us. It's not a very enlightened thing to do.


I don't know. THere's seems to be a bit of a contradiction here.

See Sammitch, THAT'S how you throw someone's words back in there face effectively.


the obsession continues!

you get effort points. style is still painfully lacking, but effort counts for something. at what point was any morality forced on anyone in my post? I think the only attempt I made at actually driving home a point was that if anyone's got a reason to gripe about it, it should most likely be someone whose existence was even in the remotest way adversely affected by it. that said, your 'effectiveness' at throwing individuals' words in 'there face' is still highly debatable.

go.

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