- Having difficulty catching your drift, T. Did the genocides and persecutions on the American Archived Message
Posted by Rhisiart Gwilym
on November 17, 2019, 8:51 am, in reply to "I meant mass support ready to rise up in arms in their defence if necessary, of course. Nothing else"
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continent by Euro-invaders not happen? Aren't continuing persecutions on the frankly racist basis of 'superior' Euro stock putting down the 'inferior' Native American indigenes still happening, even now? Consider the remarks that some of the current putschists have published, about Indios knowing their place; inferior, naturally. You hear such attitudes getting expressed continually by the 'whiter' bourgeoisie and gic-class crooks, widely across much of Latin America still today, very much including the Euro-fascist anti-Chavistas in Venezuela. I read recently an estimate that the Euro genocide of the Natives, cumulatively (and still going on piecemeal in incidents such as the current coup in Bolivia) tops a hundred million. The writer described it as the biggest genocide of them all, and still grossly under-acknowledged - especially when compared to the sacred, holy, universally-kow-towable shoah of the European jews. Some genocides are more worthy than others, it seems. Hope you're not going to fall into that error, T? The Indios have a better case even than European jewry. (But they're browner, of course, so they count for less...) If discussion of reparations for the many past monstrous crimes against humanity is now in the air, then the Native Americans have a premier case - which might be best answered by encouraging them to take back a dominant position in the governments of their countries today - especially where they're still in the numerical majority, though suffering from chronic exclusion from formal political power in most cases, even now; Bolivia being a good case in point. |