Re: Merciless Indian savages
Dawn Flood <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | alt.atheism |
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| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 8/22/2026 12:34 PM, Ted wrote: > On Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:24:54 -0400, David Canzi <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Last month I saw a YouTube video that said the Declaration of >> independence mentions "merciless Indian savages". I looked >> up the DoI for more detail. This is what I found: >> >> "He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has >> endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the >> merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an >> undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions." >> >> In these words I can see evidence of what had already happened >> and the premonition of what was to come. There was no need for >> the King of England to do anything to rouse the natives against >> the settlers. That hostility was already there, because the >> settlers had already invaded land and killed or forcibly displaced >> the people who lived there. These words from the Declaration of >> Independence show that the men who wrote them intended for that >> process to continue. >> >> The West was won by invading, killing, and displacing people. >> >> Kind of similar to what's happening today in the West Bank. > > > Same thing happened everywhere, throughout all of history and > prehistory. Your point? Yep. The two atomic bombs dropped onto Japan were also merciless.