I read the article. They clearly didn't understand how smallpox spreads.

True, but often not for the right reasons, or as evil as it really is.
I have no doubt that the intentions of the American colonists towards native Americans were not less horrible and inhumane than those of the Nazis towards the jews. Whether their approach was also as inhumane and systematic I'm not sure. In any case I still agree with your point Lucem, in general it's shocking how little awareness there is about history and how little the world learns from it

But they clearly did try to weaponize it.

I have no doubt that some individuals might have wanted to weaponize it like a Biblical plague, but you still have literally only one documentable instance in all of American history where it apparently even came up. That's a long way from saying that a few blankets wiped out millions of Native Americans through guided, systematic intent. The damage was done long before the late 18th century.

And speaking of which, don't forget that there is a general consensus that syphilis originally came from "the new World" and subsequently spread virulently through Europe after it made it's own rounds when Columbus made his return trip. The reason we don't talk about it as much today is because even a few million deaths that resulted from that isn't as well documented or politicized as smallpox was. That's the Columbian Exchange for ya.

If we ever get "friendly" intersteller visitors to the United States, I'm sure we'll all get our comeuppance from some cyclopean space prion and then the EU can take their rightful place as the next evil empire.

It definitely was. Are you familiar with the Trail of Tears? I grew up right on the border of the Wind River reservation, Lucem's right that they are intentionally isolated and stripped of resources. There's no question about it, there was never any intention to share the land. Don't listen to Ant he is literally speaking out of his butthole.

No, I haven't heard of any of this but I'm not really surprised :(. That's basically why I said I wasn't certain: it's definitely clear that there have been atrocities committed against native Americans that I (and everybody else in the Western world) haven't been taught about in school

Actually two, cause you didn't read it. Which is only what's documented. Most outbreaks in general weren't documented. There's no documentation on the results. Clear evidence that our massacre did do a huge part in spreading smallpox. Regardless of intent, which was there, it was still a welcomed byproduct and contributor to their genocide.


Or perhaps because the Natives didn't invade Europe, trying to intentionally spread syphilis or commit a mass racial genocide of Europeans.

Ad hominem much?

I was never taught any of this in school either.

It's not as hominem because I'm not even considering your assertions to be a stance or position. Just dumb racist butthole wind.