Populist conservatives have broken a decades-old taboo to name what Israel is doing in Gaza, while instinctively shielding the American founding from a definition that fits it just as cleanly.
“They just cannot see that they were raised in the country that exported it.”
I think we have done ourselves a disservice to elevate the Holocaust above all other genocides because this choice seems to have made it even more difficult to see the genocides we as a nation have perpetrated. As far as effectiveness goes, our genocide of the indigenous peoples of this continent more completely devastated those cultures and nations than Hitler’s horrific genocide against the Jews and other “non Aryans”.
Thank you Mr Greene for your well written and informative presentation. We need to fully understand, acknowledge and then pay reparations for the twin evils of indigenous genocide and the beyond cruel enslavement of people from Africa if we hope to build a more just society.
If America is ever to shed our inclinations toward violence and a lack of accountability, then we'll have to become inwardly critical at some point...Without truth, we'll never reach our true potential!!
“They just cannot see that they were raised in the country that exported it.”
I think we have done ourselves a disservice to elevate the Holocaust above all other genocides because this choice seems to have made it even more difficult to see the genocides we as a nation have perpetrated. As far as effectiveness goes, our genocide of the indigenous peoples of this continent more completely devastated those cultures and nations than Hitler’s horrific genocide against the Jews and other “non Aryans”.
Thank you Mr Greene for your well written and informative presentation. We need to fully understand, acknowledge and then pay reparations for the twin evils of indigenous genocide and the beyond cruel enslavement of people from Africa if we hope to build a more just society.
Thank you, Kahlil, for your continued truth in history. We can't get past something and start the healing process as long as we are in denial about it.
for the record, Iran, Hamas and other terror groups have all vowed never ending war against Israel since 1948. THEY are pursuing a policy of genocide - NOT Israel. ‘From the River to the Sea’ is about exterminating Jews. Oct. 7, 2023 was largely an attack on Israeli civilians. Children were not spared.(4)
There is NO Genocide being committed by Israel in Gaza. If Israel wanted to commit genocide against Gazans, they would all be dead by now. Genocide is a deliberate policy to systematically exterminate a group / race of people - like what the Nazis did to Jews in WW2. Whenever you have a war zone in a densely populated area, you are going to have civilian casualties. That doesn’t make it genocide. Israel tells civilians to leave a certain area they are going to attack to avoid civilian casualties.
Muslims don't care when civilians are killed. It is great propaganda for them.
We all recognize the Indians were sometimes treated very badly. The Trail of Tears was horrific. Yet you can’t blame people alive today for the past. You can’t blame the Japanese of today for Pearl Harbor. We must also recognize that it is impossible for people living hundreds of years after the fact to fully understand conditions that existed at that time. America’s pioneers have been condemned while Spain and other countries who conquered other parts of the New World are mostly ignored and sometimes justified.
For over a thousand years prior to the arrival of the White man, Indians killed thousands of other Indians, ran them off their land and made it their own. Indian tribes exterminated other Indian tribes.
Between 1647 and 1649, the Five Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy (Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca) essentially exterminated the Huron Indians.(1) When Native Americans exterminated other Native Americans, it is generally ignored.
Conquering someone else’s land was what people did since time began. The issue with the Indians was they ended up losing to the white man and can’t get over it. Indians DID manage to get over it when they were run off their land by another Indian tribe. The white man’s ‘crime’ was he won.
Some Native Americans believe the ‘white man’ is living on stolen land and demand land back from the past. It is absurd to treat the “theft” of land by Americans as a unique evil in the world which we must repent and take down our monuments in shame. No Indian tribe ever considered the land they conquered from another Indian tribe to be ‘stolen’ or pay reparations to the defeated tribes. The white man won this land using the same rules of conquest used by the Native Americans.
Excellent article. The genocide involved destruction of the habitats of animals, plants; soil erosion, water pollution, leading to what we recognize as Climate Change.
Maybe you keep judging your own national history according to your family experiences, if you have one and stop talking about the history ouf countries in general which are thousand of miles away. Dumb human being.
Genocide here? Unthinkable to most Americans. And, yet, that's how we began.
And until we face that uncomfortable fact, along with all of the other ways we
made ourselves the first, the best, the most powerful, we are a 250-year-old
experiment that has - for the most part - rejected accountability. Make America
great again? Let's make it good. There's a lot of kindness and decency in this
country. Many accomplishments. But until there's honesty and accountability...
Not just right wing conservatives, i’d say.
And that's the tea ...
Good read! And so true. I was at Jackson's house a few months ago. I keep meaning to write about it.
“They just cannot see that they were raised in the country that exported it.”
I think we have done ourselves a disservice to elevate the Holocaust above all other genocides because this choice seems to have made it even more difficult to see the genocides we as a nation have perpetrated. As far as effectiveness goes, our genocide of the indigenous peoples of this continent more completely devastated those cultures and nations than Hitler’s horrific genocide against the Jews and other “non Aryans”.
Thank you Mr Greene for your well written and informative presentation. We need to fully understand, acknowledge and then pay reparations for the twin evils of indigenous genocide and the beyond cruel enslavement of people from Africa if we hope to build a more just society.
It's absolutely nuts that Andrew Jackson is on the $20 bill. Imagine if Hitler was on the most-used bill
If America is ever to shed our inclinations toward violence and a lack of accountability, then we'll have to become inwardly critical at some point...Without truth, we'll never reach our true potential!!
I wish more people would make the connection between genocide of humans and the genocide of the more than human world.
“They just cannot see that they were raised in the country that exported it.”
I think we have done ourselves a disservice to elevate the Holocaust above all other genocides because this choice seems to have made it even more difficult to see the genocides we as a nation have perpetrated. As far as effectiveness goes, our genocide of the indigenous peoples of this continent more completely devastated those cultures and nations than Hitler’s horrific genocide against the Jews and other “non Aryans”.
Thank you Mr Greene for your well written and informative presentation. We need to fully understand, acknowledge and then pay reparations for the twin evils of indigenous genocide and the beyond cruel enslavement of people from Africa if we hope to build a more just society.
Thank you, Kahlil, for your continued truth in history. We can't get past something and start the healing process as long as we are in denial about it.
for the record, Iran, Hamas and other terror groups have all vowed never ending war against Israel since 1948. THEY are pursuing a policy of genocide - NOT Israel. ‘From the River to the Sea’ is about exterminating Jews. Oct. 7, 2023 was largely an attack on Israeli civilians. Children were not spared.(4)
There is NO Genocide being committed by Israel in Gaza. If Israel wanted to commit genocide against Gazans, they would all be dead by now. Genocide is a deliberate policy to systematically exterminate a group / race of people - like what the Nazis did to Jews in WW2. Whenever you have a war zone in a densely populated area, you are going to have civilian casualties. That doesn’t make it genocide. Israel tells civilians to leave a certain area they are going to attack to avoid civilian casualties.
Muslims don't care when civilians are killed. It is great propaganda for them.
We all recognize the Indians were sometimes treated very badly. The Trail of Tears was horrific. Yet you can’t blame people alive today for the past. You can’t blame the Japanese of today for Pearl Harbor. We must also recognize that it is impossible for people living hundreds of years after the fact to fully understand conditions that existed at that time. America’s pioneers have been condemned while Spain and other countries who conquered other parts of the New World are mostly ignored and sometimes justified.
For over a thousand years prior to the arrival of the White man, Indians killed thousands of other Indians, ran them off their land and made it their own. Indian tribes exterminated other Indian tribes.
Between 1647 and 1649, the Five Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy (Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca) essentially exterminated the Huron Indians.(1) When Native Americans exterminated other Native Americans, it is generally ignored.
Conquering someone else’s land was what people did since time began. The issue with the Indians was they ended up losing to the white man and can’t get over it. Indians DID manage to get over it when they were run off their land by another Indian tribe. The white man’s ‘crime’ was he won.
Some Native Americans believe the ‘white man’ is living on stolen land and demand land back from the past. It is absurd to treat the “theft” of land by Americans as a unique evil in the world which we must repent and take down our monuments in shame. No Indian tribe ever considered the land they conquered from another Indian tribe to be ‘stolen’ or pay reparations to the defeated tribes. The white man won this land using the same rules of conquest used by the Native Americans.
Excellent article. The genocide involved destruction of the habitats of animals, plants; soil erosion, water pollution, leading to what we recognize as Climate Change.
It’s all connected again and again and again
They just cannot see that they were raised in the country that exported it.”
WHAT Genocide in the U.S.? THAT was so LONG AGO! GET OVER IT!..Unless it's the made up one in Germany.
Maybe you keep judging your own national history according to your family experiences, if you have one and stop talking about the history ouf countries in general which are thousand of miles away. Dumb human being.