• PatFusty
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      Obviously this is 2015 AD meaning as 2015 years After Diogenes which is closer to 1500 CE or Century of Erasmus.

    • spez
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      I think they are referring to the British settlements that led to modern America…?

    • @Ghyste@sh.itjust.works
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      The illegal immigrants in this case would be European settlers and the added text makes the meme, I think. I had to double take on this one as well.

      • @tubaruco@lemm.ee
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        yeah, but i just dont really understand the map. is it just a map showing where the native population lived before colonization or is there an actual joke in there?

      • @BCsven@lemmy.ca
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        Apparently that is false. While disease did kill some, as well as early settlers, the rest was actual murder.

        • @snowraven@sh.itjust.works
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          There’s very less evidence to support that. I can only recall one incident where a blanket infected with small pox was handed out to a tribe and the officer who did that was later severely reprimanded.

          But anyhow, I am not trying to downplay the ill intent of European settlers, I will just quote this here “history is written by victors”. The blanket incident is all I recall about deliberate disease spreading. who really knows? How many hundreds of such incidents went unreported?

          • @Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml
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            I took a course about it back in high school, they literally wrote about how they were going to spread infected blankets to wipe out the indigenous population. But you’re white so that means your genocide denying hipfires are more accurate than actually educated facts on the matter, so excuse me for thinking I knew what I was talking about.