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Because there are other examples of continent wide genocide.
Humans are the fucking worst and it isn't unique to one area
...ok? I guess I don't get why there needs to be any comparison, since it inevitably ends up sounding like "oh, well this one wasn't as bad as that one. Happens all the time."
I'm suggesting that across history IS common.
I'm not celebrating it.
Other examples existing does not change that it is historically unprecedented and far from the norm. And its just a really strange and pointless thing to point.
Person A: "my dad died in a car bomb" Person B: "ehh, average family death" A: "uhh what?" B: "well, there are other examples of people dying in car bombs, dude! "
The root comment was "average history". I replied to someone suggesting it wasnt, and disagreed with them.
To use your analogy,
"My dad died of old age.
What? That's insane no one dies of that.
No, it's pretty normal"
You're correcting me saying that expelling native populations time and time again from every land they go to, then genociding their entire population to the point of near extinction, using the most horrific methods and over centuries, is more akin to dying of old age than dying by a bomb?
Please read that again and confirm to me that's what you're saying, because it sounds absolutely ridiculous. This scale and this horror are not common historical occurrence.
That's correct, humans have used the cutting edge methods to drive out and destroy native populations in the name of expansion, for thousands of years.
I'm not celebrating it.
I am sorry to restate this again, but the expulsion, genocide on the scale (both in size and horror) is historically unprecedented. You're going to have to prove this to me if you think it's a common occurrence instead of continuing to repeat it.
And for the record, no one here is talking about small scale expulsion. I am talking about expulsion AND genocide on the same scale and horror committed here. Show me that it is a common occurrence and I will concede.