• comrade-bear
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    5 months ago

    Shouldn’t have been the first but well better late than never

    • SadArtemis
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      5 months ago

      Has there ever been a POTUS not (typically an enthusiastic) party to genocide? 100% agreed ofc

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        5 months ago

        Maybe Abraham Lincoln? I understand he’s not the anti-racist hero we like to think the Great Emancipator was, but I still regard him as better than the rest. I dont know how he might have been towards Natives.

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          He presided over the largest single execution of natives for an uprising. He could have pardoned them but thought it important they be made example of.

          Still, as far as I know he’s just about the least worst if we’re not counting those who died within 6 months of taking office.