It was experienced a major revival beginning when the Israelis defeated invading Arabs yet again in 1967. There was a major book written about anti-semitism on the left in 1968, by a French Leftist. Naturally it was ignored in the Leftist press and the right wing press as well, but it was an excellent book. I lost my copy of it in the late 70's, unfortunately, but I can see if I can find the exact title and author's name, and few quotes for you.

I was in college from 1971 to 1975, and again in in 1982 through 1986, so I was well aware of it's beginnings and it's growth here on American campuses and academics, especially in the Journalism and Arts depts., mostly spread by the attention whore and pseudo-scholar Chomsky and his cult followers. There is now little difference between the 'Peace Left' and neo-Nazis on the issue any more; they are interchangeable. They cite each other these days.

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Why doesn't the ignore feature also work with quotes?

In any case, here's one example of Indian politics long before Europeans were ever here in any numbers :

Huron

Bold added by me.

As we can see, they had developed forts and were engaging in wars of extermination and slave hunting before Europeans got here, and continued to do so after their arrival. There isn't much in the way of evidence for 'The Gullible and Innocent Noble Savage Duped By The Conniving, Fork Tongued Evil Whitey' myth.

Disease isn't genocide, except in the ideological fever swamps.

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"A day without sunshine is, you know, night."- Shannon

Speaking of this Indian war, eventually the Huron Confederacy was nearly exterminated by the Iroquois by 1650. They didn't need white men to teach them to hate each other.

hep, huron and iroquois fought eachother, ergo there is no way that whites murdered natives.

many native tribes, including the cherokee, had adapted to the european diseases by the 1800's, and population was actually on the rise. that shattering suleyman's simplistic red herring.

also, when the spanish herded natives into slave camps, it was no surprise that disease ran rampant. remember, by 1500, the plague had taught europeans the consequences of many humans in close confinement and the spread of disease.

does one think they were surprised when the indians fell victim to disease whilst enjoying the civilized nature of europe's slave camps?

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Yes. There is no telling how many tribes were wiped out before Europeans began recording the relations and trade with Indians. And, on the other hand, some smaller tribes were saved from total extinction by the interference of the Federal government, some going on to become pretty wealthy; the Osage were down to some 200-300 members and facing being wiped out by the Souix and other Plains tribes until falling under U.S. protection. They eventually ended up on a reservation that happened to have a lot of oil under it and they became one of the richest tribes per capita in world history for a long while during the Oklahoma oil booms.

It's worth noting that the U.S. government implemented vaccination programs for Indians almost immediately after the smallpox vaccine was discovered, in the 1830's or so; hardly the actions of ravenous white devils intent on genocide.

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"A day without sunshine is, you know, night."- Shannon

yep, if they gave vaccines, there is no way that racial hatred led to land theft and forced deportations with death rates similar to the bataan death march, there is no way that california legislatures referred to indians as animals and referenced a war of extinction, there is no way that andrew jackson ordered the murder of indian women and children, and defended the killing of natives in front of congress in an eerily analogous manner as did adolf hitler a century later in front of his reichstag, citing 'historical progress'

nope, so long as we find historical examples that can be generalized into what we want to represent the narrative as a whole, we are fine. we are buff little scholars. we can simply ignore anything to the contrary. isn't history fun?

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I wouldn't doubt that there are some here who buy into the old idea that the US Government or its agents infected certain native villages with small pox blankets. Seems its always popular with Native America Studies departments. I always get a chuckle out of that one.

Here's a thread on it, a couple of years back. The 'Brett Golden' poster is none other than Glenn Miller of VNN fame; I guess he didn't think his flunkies here were doing a good enough job of warning us about 'The Joooooooos!!!!' and decided he had to come over himself:

Native American genocide?

The smallpox blanket myth is covered in post 167, for my part; it's an old argument for me.

The smallpox blanket myth was revived by Ward Churchhill, the fraud who got a University job under false pretenses, much like Norman Finklestein claiming to be a 'Middle Eastern scholar' and yet doesn't speak a single Middle Eastern language, nor is able to read one either, living or dead, and then claims he's been denied tenure 6 times because 'the Jooooos are out to get me!!!!!'. At least they got his number early, unlike U of Colorado's looking into Churchill until he had already influenced thousands of gullible seat warmers and published a lot of swill under the cloak of 'peer reviewed scholarship'.

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"The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does, what problems this really solves." - Ludwig Wittgenstein

"A day without sunshine is, you know, night."- Shannon