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Harrison [He/Him]
You:
The European colonial project that built the US killed literally hundreds of millions of people in the US alone
Your source places the highest estimates for a north American population at seven million. Most likely it was half that. “Hundreds of millions of people in the US alone” is what I am contesting.
Them’s fighting words
This is the future those damn communists want! They’re going to force their hideous art deco infrastructure and nerfarious drug-filled public transport on us!
The entire population of North and South America at the start of that project did not exceed a hundred million, and the vast majority of it was in central and southern America. There were not hundreds of millions of people in the US to kill.
Very possibly, every native American living within the modern borders of the US from 1400 to today might have totalled a hundred million, but the colonial project didn’t kill literally every one of them.
The people’s flag is deepest red. It shrouded oft our martyred dead. And ere their limbs grew stiff and cold. Their hearts’ blood dyed in every fold
Out of respect to our martyrs, please iron our flag. They didn’t die to dye a flag with such pronounced creases.