HAPPY indigenous people day!

[Starkiller]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negligent_homicideI don't think we'll ever find a planet with complex life that we can visit

what they did was not criminal. They didn't have laws against introducing foreign substances to other countries. They also didn't have a good understanding of how diseases worked. The colonists also suffered from native diseases, should we blame the indians for that too?

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[Nomel]

what is there to even defend about columbus

[Harm94]

what is there to even defend about columbus

Nothing. Vikings beat him there first.

[Tayasaurus]

what is there to even defend about columbus

nothing

he was a richard

[TacoTuesday]

what they did was not criminal. They didn't have laws against introducing foreign substances to other countries. They also didn't have a good understanding of how diseases worked. The colonists also suffered from native diseases, should we blame the indians for that too?

Sometimes the colonists would give blankets to Native American tribes, that were worn by smallpox victims. They knew that it would kill the Natives off, but they did it anyway, so they could have more land.

[Nomel]

the conquistadors would intentionally use their sick as biological weapons as well

[Caribou]

In honor of Native Americans, I will be eating a whole corn cob!

[Harm94]

Sometimes the colonists would give blankets to Native American tribes, that were worn by smallpox victims. They knew that it would kill the Natives off, but they did it anyway, so they could have more land.

Incorrect, that was done intentionally many centuries later by the united states.

As far as inoculant goes. The wiki was pretty ambiguous and didn't say what they tried to inoculate in the 16th century. Even then, news did not spread that quickly back then. You have to remember that tv and internet did not exist back then and the only way to travel long distances was by boat. Even that is pretty slow because you have to rely on sails.

[Foxscotch]

what they did was not criminal. They didn't have laws against introducing foreign substances to other countries.

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laws are based on morality. it's morally wrong. just because there wasn't a law about it doesn't mean it was ok

They also didn't have a good understanding of how diseases worked.

it was good enough

The colonists also suffered from native diseases, should we blame the indians for that too?

if they had come to Europe, yes, but they didn't, we came to them

[Tayasaurus]

it was good enough

Hahah oh right i forgot you were totally there 

[Foxscotch]

Hahah oh right i forgot you were totally there

if you have to have been there to talk about history, then I don't think you can really say anything either

[Tayasaurus]

http://www.cracked.com/article_19864_6-ridiculous-lies-you-believe-about-founding-america.html

[Daswiruch]

if you have to have been there to talk about history, then I don't think you can really say anything either

everywhere you go you start a loving fire, holy hell

[Tayasaurus]

everywhere you go you start a loving fire, holy hell

He kinda has this self destructive disability.

[Foxscotch]

everywhere you go you start a loving fire, holy hell

other potentially-argument-starting quotes:

The native Americans see Columbus day as a celebration towards the oppression of the native americans... Tumblr irl
Columbus day is a celebration of the discovery of america. It was quit a while before we actually started dominated the indians iirc

Now we all these white people on tumblr "but I'm Cherokee".

That's everyday silly.
Even before white colonized the Americas, the natives were killing each other and enslaving other tribes. I prefer that version of the natives of the stereotypical liberal version where natives are portrayed as peace lovers who smoked weed and were about peace. The same holds true for Africa where Africans traded captives from other tribes to the Europeans in exchange for gold, food, guns, clothes, etc.

the only reason they don't start arguments is because they just happened to be stuff you all agree with