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re: Racism in South Africa
Posted on 5/22/19 at 3:22 pm to LordSaintly
Posted on 5/22/19 at 3:22 pm to LordSaintly
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That’s not how facts work
Provide some.
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Posted on 5/22/19 at 3:26 pm to IAmNERD
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I'm not sure what your point is.
That diseases alone were not responsible for 90% of the deaths of indigenous people during the colonial period. I've already given the example of the Taino, who were decimated before the first major smallpox epidemic.
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It is a fact that the majority of indigenous people here were killed by diseases from Europeans.
As I've pointed out repeatedly in this thread, the modern scholarship doesn't support this assertion. It complicates this to a degree where it is mostly untrue. It depends on what you mean by majority as well. Did 50% die from epidemics? Possibly, but the context of those epidemics is extremely important and meaningful. I can explain in detail further, but I don't see a point.
Posted on 5/22/19 at 3:38 pm to crazy4lsu
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the genocide of Taino, who were around 500,000 before Columbus, and were reduced to 60,000 by 1508
This crank is saying enough Spanish troops came across the Atlantic with enough muskets and cannons to find and wipe out 450,000 Tainos spread across the Caribbean between 1492 and 1508 ( < 20 years.) And you swallowed that...
Posted on 5/22/19 at 3:39 pm to HarveyBanger
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South Africa
It's a shite-hole
Posted on 5/22/19 at 4:41 pm to HarveyBanger
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Who will they blame when their country inevitably goes to s*** like every other nation on that continent throughout history?
SA going through puberty, give them time
Posted on 5/22/19 at 4:48 pm to HarveyBanger
How did the communists come to power in SA?
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