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This conversation has become repetitive, and it feels like my arguments are being mischaracterized as arguments I am not making.

Repetitive because... I point out that Native Americans have engaged in displacement and systemic violence aimed at cultural erasure, unlike what you claimed?

I reject the notion that people act solely based on material conditions, and I’ve articulated my view in full.

I'm sorry you don't believe that all humankind shares a basic biological-neurological foundation which drives our behavior, both as individuals and societies?

Your insistence on framing my position as cultural chauvinism or invoking the noble savage trope is not only unproductive but also dismissive of the complexity I’m trying to convey.

No, you're simply uncomfortable with acknowledging the reality that you are advocating a culturally chauvinist position. Fuck, in what way could you possibly see this argument otherwise? "It's not cultural chauvinism because it's not my culture I'm championing"?

I'm sorry that you refuse to acknowledge that your position is fucking spot-on for the noble savage trope, wherein the reality of a fetishized culture is ignored in favor of stripping it of moral agency so that it can be displayed as a didactic counterexample to a 'decadent' modernity.

You can harp on about how complex your position supposedly is, but all that's been presented here is a denial of the common behavior of human societies in preference for a saccharine and sanitized view of Native American peoples wherein they are, by the virtue and purity of their culture (and, of course, it is just 'Native American' culture, not any actual specific culture of the Americas that might pin you down to real-world evidence), incapable of the evils of ethnic cleansing, genocide, and "disease spread."