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• jimbolauski@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You are definitely going to need a source for that claim.

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  • PizzaMan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Cultural genocide:

    • en.wikipedia.org/…/Cultural_assimilation_of_Nativ…

    Land theft:

    • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Indian_War

    • …wustl.edu/…/george-washingtons-dishonorable-rela…

    The natives quite literally called him “Town Destroyer” because he burned their homes, land, crops, and kidnapped any native around:

    • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_Destroyer

    • frieze.com/…/george-washington-town-destroyer

    • usnews.com/…/town-destroyer-versus-the-iroquois-i…

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    • jimbolauski@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I must have missed where in all those sources Washington “explicitly called for the genocide of natives.”

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      • PizzaMan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Try reading some of these things then.

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