Dale, you're completely wrong about this. White Christians didn't have a chance to wipe out Native Americans - they were felled long before that by smallpox - mostly unintentionally passed to them.
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Who brought small pox to the Americas?
jul 20, 2025, 8:28 pm • 6 0 • view
It's not "genocide" without intention. It's wrong to call the destruction of native culture by a disease "genocide." Without the eradication of the native populations of the Americas by disease, we would have had a different history. See the book "1491" by Charles Mann.
jul 20, 2025, 9:36 pm • 0 0 • view
jul 20, 2025, 11:33 pm • 0 0 • view
"...had a major impact on world history, not least because indigenous populations of regions where smallpox was non-native, such as the Americas and Australia, were rapidly and greatly reduced by smallpox (along with other introduced diseases) during periods of initial foreign contact,...."
jul 21, 2025, 4:34 am • 1 0 • view
Did the Europeans not know that thousands if not millions of people were dying of the pox? If they did then they had to know there was a possibility that it would follow then to the new world.
jul 20, 2025, 11:30 pm • 0 0 • view