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  • They were driven out

    They were killed. It's crazy how genocide enjoyers will sneak in the subtlest genocide apologia every chance they get.

    • Erm, yikes! I'm pretty sure that's not true. This is what we learned in history class:

      • That's fake right? This isn't really a children's schoolbook, right?

        Though as an Australian, we're taught that our country was "uninhabited" and the Aboriginals "didn't use most of the land and left it for the settlers." So...yeah, we've probably got a couple of these books floating around here too.

        • "First Nations" suggests this is a Canadian text book of some kind, and given that they're currently engaged in at least one "land dispute" that would be a war of aggression if international law was good for anything other than toilet paper, and a number of other disputes with First Nations people, I'd say this might be real.

          • Ah yes, That country. The other one that usually gets forgotten when it comes to discussions of brutal slaughter of natives because they were quieter about it.

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