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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Dog, they were sent by the British to do explicitly that. You don't get to feign innocence.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not really true. The early British colonies had a lot of peaceful trade and alliances with native tribes until the first Indian war. And even after the first Indian war, the British did nothing that could be considered even remotely close to the genocide of the Americans westward expansion.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"...The British did nothing that could be considered even remotely close to the genocide..."

Except for the Boer concentration camps, the Irish famine, the Bengal famine, the partition of India...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

i meant in north America before the revolution, but thats my bad for not being specfic.