• tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Hence why it's called a genocide against the native people, a deliberate destruction of a specific people's primary food source is defined as a genocidal act. I went to pretty 'progressive' schools in the US and it was still mostly framed as a "oh, we fought them a bit but they kinda just got sick and died, it wasn't like a lot of people were trying to eradicate them."