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submitted 11 months ago by florencia@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago

Good point, I didn't think about that.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

Measles, syphillis, rubella, mumps, chickenpox even. chickenpox is especially dangerous to adults who never had it.