Below! -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Christoph Reuss Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 3:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Futurework] Indian prejudice
Harry wrote: > No raping! The term "land rape" doesn't refer to raping. Although that was also done. > Simply landless people trying to find free land to live on. The land was already inhabited. That's why you forced the survivors into reservations. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Royalty gave Pennsylvania to Penn. Now it was occupied, others had to pay to settle. OK? Perhaps, rather like Penn, the Indians unfairly occupied too much land considering their numbers. You should understand that no matter the apparent cause of war, it seems that all wars are fought ultimately over land. The North American conflicts were no different. The history of Land in the USA is a story of force, fraud, and theft. The Indians occupied perhaps a small part of this history. (Europe was no different.) \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ > The Indians had a few million in a continent the size of Europe. You took their best lands and paved over their cemeteries for supermarkets and parking lots. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ I wasn't here in the 18th and 19th century. If I had been I would be sure to build lots of supermarkets and parking lots. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ > The millions of Europeans who emigrated were landless serfs of > monopoly landholders. (Fewer than 3,000 held almost all the land of > England.) Why should millions of Indians pay with their life just because some Brits and Irish can't shake off their top Predators? \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Guess it was just the luck of the draw. Have the Swiss given back all the Nazi deposits to the Jews? \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ > Things happened that were not pretty, but we can look back smugly from > our comfortable armchairs and "tut-tut" with the clear perception of hindsight. Would you say the same about the Holocaust? The problem isn't armchairs but double standards. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ At the time many countries weren't eager to take in Jews. Now we "tut-tut" - perhaps for the Japanese Americans too, and certainly for the citizens of Dresden. Yet, the citizens of Dresden profited from the criminal behavior of the Nazis. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ > Had we been in North America at that time we would have probably acted > the same way. I wouldn't have been in North America in the first place. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Well done! \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Chris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SpamWall: Mail to this addy is deleted unread unless it contains the keyword "igve". _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
