Yep. They live to go on about their "biggest mass shootings" but conveniently leave out this fun fact. Mass shootings are only ok when it's the government who does it, and especially if they want to round up some fire arms, for your own safety of course!

"THE LARGEST MASS SHOOTING IN US HISTORY HAPPENED December 29,1890. When 297 Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota were murdered by federal agents & members of the 7th Cavalry who had come to confiscate their firearms “for their own safety and protection”. The slaughter began after the majority of the Sioux had peacefully turned in their firearms. The Calvary began shooting, and managed to wipe out the entire camp. 200 of the 297 victims were women and children.

Wounded Knee was among the first federally backed gun confiscation attempts in United States history. It ended in the senseless murder of 297 people."

The ideology of white supremacy, duh.

But sometimes they also blame only that, and pretend that the other bad forms of "supremacism" aren't existing right now.

Honestly dude, no, they don't. This is extremely rare.

What actually happens is that most people you talk to talk about white supremacy because it's the dominant ideology in the West, and thus has global impacts because of the West's geopolitical position.

Not to mention Asians who have oppressed, slaughtered and looked down upon each other for centuries. Pretending white supremacy is the only powerful force of evil in the world is dangerously naive. There's definitely a western vs eastern power struggle going on, with some nations taking advantage of the situation. Will humanity ever unite...

so do they not happen or are they rare, you literally contradicted yourself in the first 2 sentences

Hail to you for actual thought.

There’s always some justifying reason whenever whites commit atrocities unless it’s against other whites.

The people who cared didn't matter in those days (e.g., plebs, natives, and women).

Are you asking why society has changed it's view on what is and isn't acceptable? The Native Americans were being slaughtered at the same time slaves were owned, colonies were a very real thing, and full-scale wars between the worlds superpowers was commonplace.

You're wondering if the government is going to turn around and start slaughtering it's own citicizens? What makes you think that's even close to happening?

Are you purposefully being obtuse?

Nobody said the world is perfect and that these issues don't exist anymore, but they are certainly demonized by the US and the west.

You seem to be ignoring the plethora of human rights laws that were passed between when the US slaughtered Native Americans and today. The West doesn't have the authority/resources to go in and force other countries to follow these advances in human rights, the only thing it can do is give incentives and intervene in extreme cases.

Are you concerned that the government is going to come take your land? That they'll slaughter your family and move you to a work camp?

Alright, so it sounds like you're in deep with believing the government is conspiring against you/the general public and wants to enslave us all. Don't think I'll be able to reason with you beyond that, so have a nice day.

Have you ever had a thought that the media didn't tell you to have?

If you don't think the elites control the govt and that the govt aims to subjugate us you need to read some primary sources.

It's undeniable that elites control the government, I just don't think there's some grand scheme of 'subjugating' the people - at least in the US federal government (state/local governments may be more susceptible to this).

Cause there was no internet.

Because manifest destiny.

I cared, but I didn't keep a blog back then.

I’m pretty sure a lot of ppl are against what the Americans did when they came and took the land of the natives. They brought disease, beat them, raped, did horrible things. I don’t think we’ve ever excused that part just like slavery. It was a black eye in our development as America.

It hasn’t been brought up as much as school shootings bc well I mean this happened recently and slavery and us taking over were much longer. I mean look at Vegas, the worst modern shooting in history that happened a few months ago is just a faint story every few weeks(not even that often). It was only a story for like 2 weeks, now pretty much forgotten.

We like to jump on what’s current is my guess. The problem is a lot more threats are happening, it seems to be more and more often now.

When I was in school during columbine, it felt like a rare occurrence and really wouldn’t happen again.

Nowadays it feels like a real possibility a shooting(not just school) can happen at any time. When we took over the land many were savagely killed, but it also took a colony to take over. Nowadays give one man a gun and he can hurt 600 ppl with 50+ dead included in that number.

The dehumanization of those who are sitting on top of what you want dates back to biblical times and before.

or drone attacks

I think it's because that was so long in the past that some (myself unfortunately included) think it's an irrelevant topic to bring up. I can't say I'm happy that those things happen, but I am finding it difficult to have empathy on a topic that is so far removed from me it mine as well be "where the fuck were you when the dinosaurs were wiped out!"

I might be a cynic, probably a bit of a dick, but I'm not a bad person. Again, just hard to relate to something that was so far in the past and an event my family had nothing to do with (Polish immigrants)

I’m regretfully in a similar position. Being indigenous Australian (or Aboriginal) my people have suffered many atrocities and still do to this day, albeit on a smaller scale. I constantly wonder why others don’t seem to have empathy for our past struggles. But when I hear about other races and countries’ issues and I unfortunately can’t seem to feel much for them either. Don’t know why, wish I could. It feels like I’m constantly comparing struggles between countries and races so maybe that’s why. I think understanding and empathy are a couple of the keys to world peace.

I never even thought about it like that. In WWII the Axis Powers in the European theater, we have been told (it's hard to trust anything these days) that the Nazis hated THE JEWS (we have all heard it a million fucking times) but you hardly EVER hear about how Poland was also fucked over. It's like, if no one gives a fuck about my ancestors, why should I give a fuck about theirs?

Also, this is in the "im a bit of a dick" category, but the takeover of America from natives to Europeans has been so long ago it's like "hey what are we really supposed to do here?" America has too many humans in one place for anything to really not get divided.

Why do we have school shootings? We have millions of people that's why. There are bound to be some crazies. There are ideas that can be used to prevent violence, but there are just too many people to outright purge it.

Indians care. Why do you automatic not think of them as "anyone"? Is "anyone" supposed to be only people of Europeans descent?

I'm Native American and it's hilarious watching these butthurt losers get more offended than I can even bother to be.

You're a disgrace to your roots.

Probably. The Indians were the first, the blacks seconded, other minorities third, and now who's next?

People forget this is the way of the world. Every population has done this to every other. English to 100s k Irish. Muslims to 150 million African and European. Chinese self cleanse of 60 million. Soviet union self cleanse of 50 million.

20th century alone 262 million by governments https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM

this is ridiculous. this is the same reason why no one cared about vivisection during ealry ages of modern medicine....

it took WWII for humanity to at least start realizing that limits are needed. it was also after this that the eugenics movement took a big hit, and any sort of conversation regarding it taboo among academics

Would the Holocaust have happened if the Jews had a second amendment?

Vikings got there first.

No hashtag.

so do they not happen or are they rare, you literally contradicted yourself in the first 2 sentences