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Gjournal: to avoid unnecessary aggravation, any ch...

2006-06-27T18:18:00.000-05:00

Gjournal: to avoid unnecessary aggravation, any chance you could summarise what you see as the major differences please?

Gjournal:Simple numbers; more millions of Native A...

2006-05-28T19:59:00.000-05:00

Gjournal:
Simple numbers; more millions of Native Americans were killed in this country than Jews in the Holocaust. Did I say America was based on genocide? No, but it definitely played a part in her history.

FYI, Indians come from Asia...and it isn't racist to identify with one's heritage, it's perfectly natural. YMMV...

I'll add that America has done more that sufficien...

2006-05-28T14:37:00.000-05:00

I'll add that America has done more that sufficient groveling and apoligizing for her historical sins, real and imagined.

Now, everyone else needs to step up the the bar, and stop with their chronic America bashing.

"I think I'm remembering reading here that the (la...

2006-05-28T04:10:00.000-05:00

"I think I'm remembering reading here that the (largely successful) attempts to kill off the Native Americans weren't genocide either...according to some."

If you're equating the Jewish holocaust or the Armenian genocide at the hands of Muslims with the settling of American and the Indian Wars, I would say that you are engaging in a massive case of context dropping. And of course you are playing into the hands of the Leftists who argue that America is based on genocide, racism, etc. Further, you're being one quarter Indian is not an argument. The idea that one's ideas derive from one's racial or collective history is thouroughly racist and in fact quite Marxist (at least if one traces the origins of such ideas).

I think I'm remembering reading here that the (lar...

2006-05-27T21:16:00.000-05:00

I think I'm remembering reading here that the (largely successful) attempts to kill off the Native Americans weren't genocide either...according to some.

Speaking as a ¼ Native American, I remain unimpressed...

"...in April, 2001, before an official visit to Tu...

2006-05-27T18:51:00.000-05:00

"...in April, 2001, before an official visit to Turkey, (Shimon) Peres was quoted as saying, 'We reject attempts to create a similarity between the Holocaust and the Armenian allegations. Nothing similar to the Holocaust occurred. What the Armenians went through is a tragedy, but not genocide.'"