[racism] I made the mistake of reading the comments of a YouTube video about Andrew Jackson

there sure are a lot of people willing to defend the Trail of Tears

stop hitting yourself

One person compared Native Americans to ISIS. Like, wot?

l o l

??????

That...doesn't really work beyond "people living in the area where Americans barged in and really wish they'd GTFO"

native americans are like isis because they are both brown and i dislike and fear them

welp Plurk's drunk again

please refer to my poorly spelled manifesto about how people with increased melanin are inferior, thanks

"the native Americans were killing Americans. Not because they were sadists, but because, much like the vikings, their culture involved raiding other settlements for food, resources, and women. They were kind of a nuisance. Like ISIS."

like the level of ignorance is so mind blowing

........yeah, no.

Like especially by that point, if they were killing and raiding anyone, it's because they were pissed off

As for why: Throw a dart at a map of the US. Wherever it lands, safe bet that we broke at least two or three treaties with whatever tribe lived there.

Sometimes over the span of less than 20 years

And boy were we less than subtle about our reasons

"Alright, we promise this time we won't force you any further West, we'll even make a fort and say nobody's allowed past there."
"Hey, did you hear they found gold up in the mountains over there?"
"ALRIGHT PACK YOUR SHIT, WE CHANGED OUR MINDS"

this is a map of all the atrocities the Pawnee settlers inflicted upon the Wamapoke Indians

(I think that was an example from up in the Dakotas or close to thereabouts ftr, not the Trail of Tears fiasco)

the atrocities are in blue.