Reply to post: Re: To the victors, the spoils. @Pompous Git

Oz uni in right royal 'indigenous' lingo rumpus

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Re: To the victors, the spoils. @Pompous Git

"they regarded the Stone Age inhabitants as animals and hunted them"

I try to be reasonably open-minded about these things, but I can't for the life of me see why anyone would think that they weren't animals. Living a hunter-gatherer existence is little better than cattle or dog-packs, and certainly not significantly different from species of ape that we don't class as human. I'm probably a bad person, but I don't see the big deal about taking land from primitives, regardless of what continent it is. It is the way of the world.

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