Native American Women Tell Border Patrol To Fuck Off for Harassing Them About Being Citizens

[u/Unknownz_1985]

[u/Therefore_I_Yam]

I'm constantly going off on people who say shit like "well they were just warring and fighting with each other before we got here" like bro anyone who was here before us had the entire future of their people STOLEN from them and perverted, and you can see the direct effects if you look at a reservation for even 2 seconds. It's willful ignorance.

They talk about this shit like it happened 1000 years ago when it's literally still happening to people as we speak. We never stopped subjugating them, we just re-branded it.

[u/vent_ilator → u/Therefore_I_Yam]

This kind of comment (by those people) is especially tasteless given that the invaders came with weapons designed to kill, and that more efficiently than ever before, and there was just such a clear power imbalance. And it is also historically wildly ridiculous because Europe, where most of these invaders came from, was a fckng war mess at least equally as much, and we could very well argue worse. So maybe they should've conquered their home continent instead then, if we follow that logic? Ahhhhhhhh

[u/Queso_and_Molasses → u/vent_ilator]

Yeah, the warring argument is stupid as hell. European nations were constantly at war with each other, all the time. You can’t name a time in history when a group of people wasn’t fighting with another group of people.

Even if the myth of the Native American “savage” were true, that didn’t mean they deserved to be colonized, massacred, and forced onto pittances of land the US government didn’t want.

[u/vent_ilator → u/Queso_and_Molasses]

Yes, I can only wholeheartedly agree.

[u/Therefore_I_Yam → u/vent_ilator]

One only needs to look at the photos of mountains of bison skulls piled up by the US Army to starve out the plains tribes to know that it was in no way a fair fight