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.
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.