What's he point of Himmler's quote? He wanted to reduce deaths in a system in which the end goal was extermination?
I agree with you that there are instances where Europeans wiped out natives and even where that was the mindset. The fact remains that the majority of Native Americans did not die due to systematic extermination. It is indisputable.
The US had done bad things, but every single culture in the world has done evil things. That is human nature. Many native tribes engaged in torture and regular warfare of their own. The only thing we can do is learn from it and the only way to do it is being objective about history, not engaging in exaggeration.
Can you get more genocidal than that? Can you find a Hitler quote, from before the start of WWII that comes close to that?
Mein Kampf?
Hopefully when Trump does not become Hitler 2.0 you will admit you were wrong.
> What's he point of Himmler's quote? He wanted to reduce deaths in a system in which the end goal was extermination?
My point is that you are denying the systematic genocide of the Native Americans. Just as the Nazis denied the systematic genocide of the Jews. Using exactly the same arguments.
> The fact remains that the majority of Native Americans did not die due to systematic extermination. It is indisputable.
It is also true that most Jews survived the Holocaust. Your point?
I have not read the entire book, as it is very long, but as far as I know Mein Kampf does not actually talk about genocide at all. It was not untill 1941, after the war had started, that Hitler first publicly mentioned the idea http://ww2history.com/key_moments/Holocaust/Hitler_talks_of_... He was hateful. Yes. But Donald Trump is hateful too.
> Hopefully when Trump does not become Hitler 2.0 you will admit you were wrong.
I don't think that Trump will become Hitler 2.0. But his supporters may well commit a genocide and cause either totaltarianism or mayhem. If they do not, I will not be wrong, just as I would not be wrong, if I were to say that cancer can kill a patient who subsiquently survives.
I agree with you that there are instances where Europeans wiped out natives and even where that was the mindset. The fact remains that the majority of Native Americans did not die due to systematic extermination. It is indisputable.
The US had done bad things, but every single culture in the world has done evil things. That is human nature. Many native tribes engaged in torture and regular warfare of their own. The only thing we can do is learn from it and the only way to do it is being objective about history, not engaging in exaggeration.
Can you get more genocidal than that? Can you find a Hitler quote, from before the start of WWII that comes close to that?
Mein Kampf?
Hopefully when Trump does not become Hitler 2.0 you will admit you were wrong.