Also, may John Smith rot in hell. Fucking genocidal psychopath.
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Also, may John Smith rot in hell. Fucking genocidal psychopath.
And John Calvin can eat a dick.
The language of the British imperialist, Major General Jeffrey Amherst:
"We must, on this occasion, use every strategem in our power to reduce them! To bring them to a proper subjection until there is not an Indian settlement with 1,000 miles of our country!"
Wow. Almost the same words and sentiment of Israel, centuries later, re: Palestinians.
I literally did not put realize how some of US military terminology is a head nod to the origins and development of the early US military in conquering the Indigenous nations that fought their displacement and eradication.
Hm. She's making a point about the use of the Scotch-Irish as foot soldiers of British Empire building --- seasoned (brutal) settler colonialists by the time they were migrating heavily to North America in the early 18C.
So, basically, the bloody violent colonized soldiers from Britain's conquered colonies (Ireland and Scotland) become the Revolution's 'special forces' against the Indians to, for some, become part of the US settler class from which 17 of our Presidents are descended. (Including Jackson, Roosevelt, Reagan, Clinton, and wtf Obama?!?)
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