• Wheaties [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    1 month ago

    It’s also cherry picking instances of “legal” acquisition (Manhattan “sold” for fucking beads), while flat out ignoring all the treaties that have been and still are violated.

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      Even by that “legal” standard, isn’t a contract signed under duress invalid? One side has guns and regularly took land by force and murder.

      • Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        Yes lol

        Native Americans weren’t stupid. They were forced into bad treaties at literal gunpoint. They knew the island of Manhattan was more valuable than what they were getting in return. But it was either take a shitty deal or get genocided.