[quote=Jannah]
Natives were genocided pretty badly too. I was reading recently that rewards were actually granted for their murder. I don't know how accurate that is, but given the circumstances it doesn't seem far-fetched at all. Also, I'm not solely blaming America here. Keep that in mind. Here in Canada similar shit occurred.
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Again, it's complicated. Indian tribes raided white villages *constantly*. You slept with a gun -- more than one, if you could afford it -- because at any time they might show up and rape your children and cut off your head (which became an embellished boogey-man story, absolutely, but one rooted in truth). So eventually patience ran out and the local governments started doing stuff about it, and that's when shit like the Trail of Tears went down. Atrocity is contagious like that.

Anyway if we're looking for examples of one-sided bad imperialism, you shouldn't focus on the Europeans. Check out your friendly local Empire of the Rising Sun. You wanna talk exploitation and atrocity, us good-natured white folk are hardly the baddest bullies on the block.

[quote=Jannah]
Hey, people use that same logic when trying to inflate any death toll. I realize the numbers in that blog are probably inflated, but to deny colonialism was responsible for genocide is no different from Holocaust denial.
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'Probably inflated....' They counted up all the famines and reached 85 million (in a *huge* country, mind you) and decided that was 1.8 [b]billion[/b] heads on the British doorstep. It's ludicrous.