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minus-squareMutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-23 days agoI have a suspicion that if it weren’t for all the disease the colonizers would have destroyed them anyway. Also nobody intentionally made them deathly ill? Smallpox blankets.
minus-squareLedericas@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 days agoMeasles, syphillis, rubella, mumps, chickenpox even. chickenpox is especially dangerous to adults who never had it.
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 days agoYou’re not wrong. However, it is worth pointing out that the documented “smallpox blankets” stuff happened in the 1700s and 1800s, which was already a century or two after the continent had been greatly depopulated by diseases spread unintentionally.
I have a suspicion that if it weren’t for all the disease the colonizers would have destroyed them anyway.
Also nobody intentionally made them deathly ill? Smallpox blankets.
Measles, syphillis, rubella, mumps, chickenpox even. chickenpox is especially dangerous to adults who never had it.
You’re not wrong.
However, it is worth pointing out that the documented “smallpox blankets” stuff happened in the 1700s and 1800s, which was already a century or two after the continent had been greatly depopulated by diseases spread unintentionally.