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minus-squareᴍᴜᴛɪʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴᴡᴀᴠᴇ linkfedilinkEnglish8•edit-21 month agoI have a suspicion that if it weren’t for all the disease the colonizers would have destroyed them anyway. Also nobody intentionally made them deathly ill? Smallpox blankets.
minus-square@grue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish5•1 month agoYou’re not wrong. However, it is worth pointing out that the documented “smallpox blankets” stuff happened in the 1700s and 1800s, which was already a century or two after the continent had been greatly depopulated by diseases spread unintentionally.
minus-square@Ledericas@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish2•1 month agoMeasles, syphillis, rubella, mumps, chickenpox even. chickenpox is especially dangerous to adults who never had it.
minus-square@RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 month agoI never said nobody intentionally made others sick. I said most were not intentionally made sick. Most Natives died before even seeing Europeans.
I have a suspicion that if it weren’t for all the disease the colonizers would have destroyed them anyway.
Also nobody intentionally made them deathly ill? Smallpox blankets.
You’re not wrong.
However, it is worth pointing out that the documented “smallpox blankets” stuff happened in the 1700s and 1800s, which was already a century or two after the continent had been greatly depopulated by diseases spread unintentionally.
Good point, I didn’t think about that.
Measles, syphillis, rubella, mumps, chickenpox even. chickenpox is especially dangerous to adults who never had it.
I never said nobody intentionally made others sick. I said most were not intentionally made sick. Most Natives died before even seeing Europeans.