• RupeThereItIs@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Look, the reality is that disease did kill the majority of natives.

    The genocide after that is not made any less horrible by that reality, but it was made POSSIBLE because of it.

    If European settlers had to deal with the full original population, things would have been VERY different.