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  • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 months ago

    fun fact.

    The US army gave people ammunition for free if it was used to kill bison for a period of time.

    Bison almost went extinct.

    Bison were a source of food for the natives.

    I love american history!

    • Maggoty@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      The official reason was the Bison herds were capable of destroying the fields of entire farms. We never stopped to ask if we should have been farming there in the first place.

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    10 months ago

    Well, except Europeans never lived in America before Columbus, but Jews did live in Palestine/ Middle East

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      10 months ago

      Some did, but the whole point of Israel was a place for European countries to send their Jewish populations.

      People who even if they were also ethnically Semitic, were descended from people who voluntarily left the area generations ago.

      They could have immigrated there, instead European governments just declared it was theirs now.

      Like, imagine if every American with Irish heritage were granted birthright citizenship there and the people who never left are shoved down into an ever shrinking slice of land. That’s what’s happening

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      10 months ago

      It’s kind of disingenuous.

      It portrays Orthodox Jewishness as being responsible for genocidal Zionism when Orthodox Jewishness has pretty much always been vehemently critical of both Zionism and the creation of Israel.

      The Jewish Zionists that perpetrated the Nakba looked no different than their fellow Europeans.