“We are sending a signal across the nation and to the global community that we make these changes in the spirit of truth-telling,” Council Member Alondra Cano said ahead of the Council meeting.
“Now that we have established Indigenous People's Day, every child -- whether that child is native or whether that child is not -- will learn the truth about where America really comes from," added U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison.
Originally Posted by Hoopsdoc:
"The Great Mortality" is an awesome book on the Black Plague. I read it recently and they did associate bathing with the plague. Kind of ironic. One of the kings of the time was advised to surround himself with heat at all times to ward off the plague so he never left a room with several roaring fires in it. He survived because of the heat.
It's amazing how little people then knew of germs and bacteria. Most actually thought it came on the winds.
Germs and bacteria? That's just Big Apothecary trying to scare everyone.
Things we can't even see are making us sick? It's a big hoax and why they call it Germ theory.
Originally Posted by cosmo20002:
Germs and bacteria? That's just Big Apothecary trying to scare everyone.
Things we can't even see are making us sick? It's a big hoax and why they call it Germ theory.
/RWNJs
Poor cosmo, can't even keep his snark straight.
Originally Posted by cosmo20002:
Pretty much everyone sick with a fever is going to be treated as a possible ebola case. That person may not have been to Africa, but someone they had contact with may have been.
We shouldn't be concerned about ebola because the government said we were safe. But we know what killed the indians off 400+ years ago because a textbook said blame blanky. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Baby Lee:
Poor cosmo, can't even keep his snark straight.
We shouldn't be concerned about ebola because the government said we were safe. But we know what killed the indians off 400+ years ago because a textbook said blame blanky.
Yes, we know "because a textbook said it." JFC
So BL says the science is still out on identifying disease. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Baby Lee:
Poor cosmo, can't even keep his snark straight.
We shouldn't be concerned about ebola because the government said we were safe. But we know what killed the indians off 400+ years ago because a textbook said blame blanky.
I learned this in high school and argue about it with liberals all the time.
There is not a single documented case of this happening. The only example was anecdotal... where a military man claimed he did it... but again... not a single person verified and several denied it. It was debunked over 100 years ago... yet we were still teaching it in the 90's.
Not a shred of evidence people intentionally infected natives with blankets... but people believe it because people don't fact check. I ask the people I argue with to show me a single verified historical example and all they do is reassert that it happened without any evidence.
That's not to say it couldn't have happened, but is sure shows that the idea that it was some kind of government initiative has essentially been proven to be nothing more than horse shit. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Garcia Bronco:
Do people underatnd that Columbus never actually set foot on the land that that is the mainland United States...weird
So why do self-hating white libs hate him as much as they hate themselves? [Reply]
Originally Posted by Prison Bitch:
So why do self-hating white libs hate him as much as they hate themselves?
No idea. NAtive Americans were neither noble or compassionate people. In fact when my first ancestor got here they were engaged in genocide between tribes [Reply]
Originally Posted by Pawnmower:
Maybe they blame columbus for EVERYTHING
without columbus we would all still be living under some even bigger government rule somewhere else
like those lucky french, scandinavians, and english, italians, spaniards and all the other cool kids who get to live in socialist countries
THANKS COLUMBUS
Man...do they know that CC was not the first person to make contact with Natives in the new world? Do they know that the Natives here were from Asia? [Reply]
