the National Parks were literally created by stealing land that the US promised to Native Americans and then forcibly relocating them again into shittier reservations
I don't think I can name a President that was Native friendly. Maybe John Quincy Adams?
He was also probably the most imperialistic president we ever had.
glances at Jefferson
glances at Jackson
glances at Polk, Tyler, Fillmore, Pierce, and Buchanan
straight up glares at McKinley
fires laser-beams from eyes at Truman, Eisenhower, and Nixon
I mean, I guess.
He literally believed that war was good and necessary for its own sake, or else humanity would become too weak and decadent to maintain civilization.
You realize that "kick indigenous people off their land and make it a park" and "kick indigenous people off their land and make it a strip mine" are not the only two options, right?
Yeah, because they were evil settler colonialist shits. That's literally been my point this whole time. Doing a genocide to create national parks is a Bad Thing, not a good thing like you claimed. "Everyone else was doing it too" doesn't somehow make it good.
I don't think I can name a President that was Native friendly. Maybe John Quincy Adams?
glances at Jefferson
glances at Jackson
glances at Polk, Tyler, Fillmore, Pierce, and Buchanan
straight up glares at McKinley
fires laser-beams from eyes at Truman, Eisenhower, and Nixon
I mean, I guess.
Hardly a view unique to Roosevelt.
Nothing you said is wrong, I’m just pointing out that some of the “good things” that Teddy did weren’t in fact good at all.
I prefer national parks to land fills and strip mines. I'm happy that we didn't privatize the state of Nevada, like we did almost all of the rest.
You realize that "kick indigenous people off their land and make it a park" and "kick indigenous people off their land and make it a strip mine" are not the only two options, right?
Sure. I do.
Turn of the century American Presidents did not.
Yeah, because they were evil settler colonialist shits. That's literally been my point this whole time. Doing a genocide to create national parks is a Bad Thing, not a good thing like you claimed. "Everyone else was doing it too" doesn't somehow make it good.