Apologists for Christopher Columbus say that Columbus coming here was inevitable, that if he hadn’t come to the New World, somebody else would have. Next, apologists excuse Pilgrims’ and Puritans’ exterminating First Nations by omission, blaming everything on disease and epidemics. Surely, white europeans did not intend to exterminate the remaining 5% to 10% of the First Nations here, did they?
Whites, an appropriate term since “black” was meant to designate slaves, needed the kidnapped Africans alive to amass wealth. By contrast, whites needed American Indians dead, so they could force labor on blood-soaked land. Therefore, the ends that justified the means was to kill the American Indian, yet recapture any kidnapped Africans. Notwithstanding the first slaves in the New World were Native American, ” we shall take you and your wives and your children, and shall make slaves of them (Spanish Requirement of 1513),” white slave owners had to level off their cruelty, so their hostages could work. That is not taught adequately, so the social conscience of the United States is infected with numerous rationalizations to keep the dark light from shining. That dark light is genocide denial.
Genocide denial tells everybody that: Columbus was a genius, Thanksgiving was about happiness, all the massacres were battles, if tribes hadn’t resisted removal – they’d have been fine, tribes that fought had no right to defend themselves, their spiritual practices were never illegal, the Ghost Dance was just about giving their land back to them one day, Indian Boarding Schools were good for them and nobody died or was kidnapped, Abraham Lincoln was fair to them during the Civil War and didn’t commit genocide, the Termination Era was to help them, indigenous women who were sterilized were so by choice, AIM was attention seeking ex-cons with guns, there’s never been a suicide epidemic – they get all that free money, MMIW are all just runaways, it’s reverse discrimination to say it’s mostly white men that rape indigenous women on reservations, there aren’t any more reservations, all the Native Americans are gone, there’s no indigenous blood in Mexicans – they’re Mexican, and on and on. Apologists are the mouths for genocide denial.
Consequently, apologists are no more creative today.
Native Americans Are Getting Swept Up by ICE; Republicans Say ‘There Will be Mistakes’
In other words: it’s inevitable, they don’t mean to detain them, it’s about getting the bad guys, the president means well, forced sterilizations don’t happen in the detention centers, and so on. Apologists for Christopher Columbus say that Columbus coming here was inevitable. Well, if he were to return today and kidnap a member of any tribe,
“As the first people of this land, there’s no reason why Native Americans should have their citizenship questioned,” said Jaqueline De León, a senior staff attorney with the nonprofit Native American Rights Fund and member of Isleta Pueblo.
he would be welcomed and celebrated.
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THE DOCTRINE OF FASCISM BENITO MUSSOLINI (1932)
Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and the economic sphere.