Upon what other theory can we justify the almost complete extermination of the Indians, the original possessor of all these States?
This is such an weird thing to say in his position.
It’s definitely acknowledging that what happened was mega-fucked, or at least would be without proper justification.
But it’s so wild to me to be open about your moral philosophy being based on cope.
My best guess would be that it was Very Bad to suggest that the folks who paved the way for their lives were anything but saints? There’s a YouTube video (innuendo studios maybe?) that talks about conservatives viewing individual people as good or bad vs viewing actions as good or bad (which leads to e.g. “the only moral abortion is my abortion”). Under that lens, Good People do Good Things, and the people who genocided the native americans were Good People, therefore there must exist a reason that it was a Good Thing?
Thank you for this!
I was curious about the 95.5% support and read that source, then stopped when they started cherry picking numbers to push a narrative (citing low % of “very satisfied” vs grouping both “somewhat” and “very”). This was used to say that township-level support was low in China vs high in the US.
Looking at the actual study, overall township-level satisfaction is 70%… which is exactly the support level that they cite for the US.