Reconsider Columbus Day 2010

[tvashtarkatena]

The Indians just don't appreciate how much the Euros lowered the violence rates of primitive societies.

 

Librul losers.

 

 

[sobo]

have you guys settled this issue yet, or does the debate still rage on???

 

Oh Lord, do we have the strength to carry on this mighty task in one night? Or are we just jerking off?

[JayB]

The Indians just don't appreciate how much the Euros lowered the violence rates of primitive societies.

 

Librul losers.

 

 

One of the main insights that I gained from reading Keeley's book was that the fact native folks they spent so much time trying to kill each other off and take each other's land made them really, really good at killing non-native people that wanted to kill them off and take their land.

 

Outside of a fairly narrow set of circumstances, primitive folks were cunning, adaptive, tactically sophisticated, and fierce enough to fight much better armed and provisioned colonial armies to a standstill, or completely repel them for long periods of time. When they did lose, it was rarely if ever solely the result of colonial armies getting the best of them in battle. The Maori in NZ are one of the better examples of this.

 

Not quite what you'd expect if their cultures had actually been limited to the Woodstock-in-Eden caricature.

 

[JayB]

[AlpineK]

To celebrate Columbus Day I just voted against Dino Rossi

[tvashtarkatena]

What, the Maori weren't peace loving?

[ivan]

i thought they were too busy tatting themselves up to fight?

[tvashtarkatena]

Surprisingly, the Ozzie aboriginals were some of the most successful at repelling whites for a long period of time. The euros tried gifts, diplomacy, the works - the abbos wanted only their absence.

 

They knew what the story was gonna be from day one.

 

Unlike our present idiocracy, aboriginal morons seldom lasted long enough to procreate. They either met with accident or 'accident'.