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A Boring Dystopia
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Not just their land, but their ideas of "freedom", "equality", and "democracy". Europeans didn't even know those words until the French Missionaries in the late 1600's were met with the Indigenous Critique, and how Indigenous Americans had equal rights for men and women, were free to disobey arbitrary authority, had a conglomerate of states that conveined in a "federal" central committee, and could impeach their rulers. Of course, so-called "Enlightenment" philosophers who were just rich trust-fund babies stole that idea to create America and call themselves "Enlightened Thinkers" as if they came up with it themselves, while simultaneously degrading the Indigenous Critique by calling them "savages" who were "less advanced" than Europeans based on evidence they dreamed up while staring at a fireplace (I'm look at you Rousseu and Hobbes), stealing Indigenous politics as their own, and thanking them with ethnic cleansing.
Fuck Europeans.
As a European I agree. The amount of shit we, on our high white horses, caused across the globe is astonishing. It would be interesting to see what the world would have looked like today had there never been any colonization.