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Originally Posted by Anteater
Lol, not even close. People from Spain, Portugal, England, etc. came to the North American continent. They traded goods and food. These simple actions guaranteed that smallpox was going to spread. There was no malice or ill intent behind it.
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Behind people just coming to a new place? No. But that is one sliver of the story that you are choosing to focus on in order to perpetrate the same kind of cowardly white washing of history as Holocaust deniers and Confederate apologists.
You wouldn't say any of this **** face to face with a Native American. The only reason you feel comfortable saying it is because you presume your audience to be a bunch of white people. White privilege at its most pathetic.
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The fact that individual racists wanted to weaponize smallpox several centuries later doesn't change this.
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Yeah just a few bad apples, you ****ing Nazi.
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Other than Europeans staying in Europe and nobody leaving their countries of origin, how would you have changed the course of history to avoid these kinds of disease outbreaks?
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Pretending this is about disease outbreaks makes you a pussy. If Europeans had come to the Americas with open hearts desiring nothing more than to trade and build relations with the Americans but tragically caused all of these deaths through disease and then tried to help rather than swallowing all of their land this would be a much different conversation.
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There were still around 15 million cases of smallpox every year circa 1967 or so. So I guess the "genocide" is slowing down? 
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No that's just your brain.