• spujb@lemmy.cafe
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    7 days ago
    1. because indigenous people faced a 95-100% decimation by colonization—they were murdered and replaced by white people
    2. and i still see plenty of similar jokes from indigenous voices anyway so you’re not even right idk maybe you just follow the wrong people
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      6 days ago

      because indigenous people faced a 95-100% decimation by colonization—they were murdered and replaced by white people

      95% of hawaiians were murdered by white people?

      idk maybe you just follow the wrong people

      You mean this community we both follow?

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        6 days ago

        95% might be high but close. Maybe 85% is more accurate?

        Cook and his men also brought syphilis and mosquitoes so fuck those dudes right in the ear.

        https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2015/04/06/native-hawaiian-population/#:~:text=By Swanson’s estimates%2C 1-in,Swanson’s estimates have some caveats.

        By Swanson’s estimates, 1-in-17 Native Hawaiians had died within two years of Cook’s arrival. By 1800, the population had declined by 48% since Cook set foot on Hawaii. By 1820, it had declined 71%; by 1840, it declined 84%.

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        6 days ago

        no, indigenous people. the ones who were “actually colonized” like you said.

        and no you said it’s “always a white American man” implying you follow spaces where similar voices reign and i’m letting you know that’s a uniquely you experience that doesn’t have to stay that way.

        talk about bad faith, must be exhausting to be like that.