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Would you like Genocide or Flavored Genocide? Thats the choice you have in burgerland "democracy" (europe.pub)
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[–] -2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Source for that 75% claim? Wondering how it's calculated since I've heard ~90% died to plagues the settlers brought, but since 75% is below that it seems like it's calculating something else. Is it referring to some specific time period?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    It is possible 90% of certain tribes on the East Coast died of plague. However the vast majority of native Americans were slaughtered other ways.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    Over what time period are we talking though?

    Like the Wikipedia article says 10-100M and up to 95% died from plagues brought over from ~1500-1618, but I can't tell if the sources are any good/reliable.

    Does this count or does it mean that of those who remained, a further 75% got genocided? Or is it referring to some specific even later genocide.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    If we're talking about the time period from 1500 to 1618. Then we're talking about the time. Where we're looking at the islands we're looking at Central America and South America during the Spanish and Portuguese take over those areas. And we're looking at just the beginnings of the east coast in the continental United states. That doesn't count for the tens of thousands of fries with millions of members across the rest of the continent. The slaughter of them came way way after that.

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