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Originally Posted by robayon [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Sure those things happened, I'm not defending the French or the Russians, now let's look at Native American genocide, slavery, overthrowing regimes to keep companies solvent, invading countries to acquire their resources...

America isn't so different

Every single country ever is founded via conquest. Does that make it okay and good? Of course not, but if you really want to go through and do this sanctimonious accounting of history and somehow try to rectify past injustices, there are a whole lot of centuries of human history to go through before america even existed.

America became extremely powerful and influential though so I understand why people go out of their way to single out American atrocities as if they are particularly unique, but it still gives you a completely skewed and false sense of history.

People talk about things like "giving the land back" to native americans still living today. I get it, seems logical enough, until you ask them which tribe we give it back to? The tribe that had it first, or the other tribe that massacred that tribe and took it from them? Oops! Moral grandstanding gets dicey quick when you have to consider the totality of history and not just cherrypick through it.