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[-] Umbrias@beehaw.org 1 points 6 months ago

In doing so you sacrifice the wealth and progress of the people you are colonializing. Like I said, broken window fallacy. Slaughtering while cultures doesn't actually as a rule lead to an increase in human wealth or progress towards this future.

And "great person"ing Columbus who was more a bumbling symptom of the colonialist sentiment that already existed is silly. There would have been colonization without him. He's just the face that got to start genocides for Spain in the Americas first.

[-] Liz@midwest.social 1 points 6 months ago
  1. I'm not the person down voting you, just FYI.

  2. Again, I didn't say this was good, only that it's an obvious turning point in history that lead to the modern world. It wasn't inevitable that we got here from there, but we did, so that's the obvious start.

[-] Umbrias@beehaw.org 2 points 6 months ago

Beehaw doesn't have nor does it federate down votes, so don't worry. People can be as upset as they want but if they won't engage in discussion to voice it I'll never know.

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