• Nakoichi [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    Not even. At least survivors were moved to paltry “reservations”

    I’m sorry but reservations are literally death camps.

    The average life expectancy at pine ridge is 52 for men and 54 for women. They have the highest infant mortality rates and suicide rates in the country. Jus because there are no gas chambers doesn’t make it much different.

    The entire water supply is contaminated by uranium mines and my friend’s grandmother can’t even live on her parcel of land because it is right next to a bombing range.

    We are doing work to try to change that but the last person that tried is still in prison.

    The only difference between the US and Nazi Germany is that the US succeeded.

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      10 months ago

      I never said that they were resorts, why did you cut off the remainder of the sentence which described the torture and humiliation of survivors to make it seem like I defended or downplayed the horrific nature of reservations.

      Also for how horrid, disgusting, and inhumane the conditions of the reservations were, they were not death camps. That word has a very specific meaning about the quick, efficient, and factory model method of exterminating as many humans as possible in the shortest possible time. Native Americans were left to starve and suffer an excruciatingly slow planned extinction. They were not factory style liquidated as with the Holocaust.

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          10 months ago

          “Not relevant”.

          The entire sentence doesn’t make sense without the ending, that was the point of it being there. Not for you to cherry-pick an argument.