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Bigsweaties 53 points ago +53 / -0

They like to imply that American Indians were all sitting around puffin' the ole peace pipe. They were not. They were raiding and pillaging each other long before the Pale Face. It's just facts...

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DontGiveUp [S] 24 points ago +24 / -0

Yeah, the imperialism and atrocities committed by the Aztecs and Comanches gets little coverage in schools or media.

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blindambition 13 points ago +13 / -0

Who do they think taught us the Insurgent skills to beat the British....

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Wesreidau 10 points ago +10 / -0

French and Indian War.

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SpezIsDead 9 points ago +9 / -0

European fighting style has always been line up rows of soldiers on a field. Native Americans taught us to scout and shoot from trees. Use hills as visual cover to flank and parry larger regimens.

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Bramble 5 points ago +5 / -0

Because they lost in the end.

We should start pushing that the Superbowl losers are actually the winners because they were oppressed by the other team, and the winners shouldn't celebrate their victory because it came at the expense of the losing team.

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arebee 13 points ago +13 / -0

They found mass graves of Indians. They didn’t just war and pillage.. they completely wiped whole tribes

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Philosiraptor 4 points ago +4 / -0

I live a little bit south of Calgary and I can concur with all of this. I use to do home theatre installations and we did a lot of work out on the reservations. Every home we went into were in such disrepair, garbage everywhere... a very bad state of things

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the-new-style 1 point ago +2 / -1

Born in the USA? You're a native.

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TheSwiftPepe 1 point ago +1 / -0

We had a chance to elect the first native american president this year and blew it.

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blindambition 6 points ago +6 / -0

How far back will the cancel culture try to go... the shift between BC an AD? I want reparations for the Dark Ages... I want those 1000 years of demonizing science Chastised.. and I want my jet pack NOW or I will Protest...

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Tranny_Fluid 1 point ago +1 / -0

Add flying cars to your list of demands for me plz

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FALKERMAN 5 points ago +5 / -0

Almost as if we didn't fight multiple wars against the Native Americans over these lands.

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DontGiveUp [S] 20 points ago +20 / -0

Of course North America isn't the most recent stolen land as the Pontic Greeks and Armenians had lands stolen from the Turks and Yazidis by ISIS, but his point stands.

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Sumsuch 11 points ago +11 / -0

China just took land from India a couple days ago.

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sfluke8 3 points ago +3 / -0

Turks are not native to Anatolia, Anglos and Saxon not native to British Isles, Zulus not native to South Africa.

All the no-go zones across the Western World

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Sumsuch 4 points ago +4 / -0

NATO countries staged a coup in Ukraine which ousted the legitimate government, then the newly installed government decided to renege on a long standing deal to allow Russia to operate one of their most important military bases in Crimea.

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Smurfection 9 points ago +9 / -0

On the contrary, We got into Vietnam because the French stole Vietnam. We got into Philippines because the Spanish stole it. We got into Puerto Rico the same way.

Albanians stole Kosovo. The Russians just stole Crimea and half of Georgia. China is stealing Hong Kong and whole swaths of Africa. The Cartels are stealing Mexico. Tribal blacks in South Africa are stealing from the Afrikaners. Islamists like Boko Haram are stealing northern Nigeria (now called Niger). Burkina Faso is being taken over by Islamists. Pakistan is stealing Afghanistan. The Islamists are stealing Chechnya. Argentina is trying to steal the Falkland Islands (again). The USSR stole the entirety of Eastern Europe for 60 years. Turks are trying to steal Cyprus. Morocco is trying to steal Gibraltar.

I could go on and on. You wouldn't know it by attending school but actually, the USA has had the most stable and peaceful borders for the last 100 years compared to the rest of the world. Our last war with Canada was 1812. We haven't fought Mexico since the Mexican-American war (although we do have a problem with the cartels and illegal immigration, but we are not at war with the official Mexican government and in fact, just modified a trade treaty with them). So in reality, we are one of the LAST nations to just go start expanding and playing around with land grabs. Also, unlike most territories of developed, Western nations, we actually do not in any way oppose any of our territories from breaking off from us. We allow our territories to vote for their own government and even hold referendums on joining the U.S.

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Wefoundyouremails 3 points ago +3 / -0

Based underrated reply. Everybody knows the USA as the World's Police, with many not bothering to consider who it was in this scenario, that called the cops and gave us that power in the first place. Hint: literally every other power in the world.

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NorthAfricanViolet 7 points ago +7 / -0

Has it been removed yet?

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aparition42 4 points ago +4 / -0

I've always asked them how far back they want to go. Same with the environmentalists and "invasive species".

The OP is wrong to say that North America is most recent. It's actually some of the oldest. WWI and WWI both resulted in massive land transfers and there have been many wars since. Right of conquest is still an internationally recognized and supported concept.

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ZombieConstitution 2 points ago +2 / -0

When people want to go back, I go allllll the way back. Pangea, baby, that means we're all natives so long as we're not stepping on a man-made island. Practically anywhere else, though? Go screw yourself, my ancestors lived here too.

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superalienhyphy 3 points ago +3 / -0

Not even recent let alone most recent lmao

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WishdoctorsSong 3 points ago +3 / -0

North America isn't even the most recent taken. The bantu migration into Southern Africa occurred after the colonization of the US, before that it was mostly various San tribes. Also, the Bantu are racist as fuck against the San.

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weirdbutinagoodway 2 points ago +2 / -0

I was thinking of doing one on the Cherokee Indians saying they deserved to be moved off their land since they were slave owners.

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letrain 2 points ago +2 / -0

most recent??? hahah no.. just no.

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letrain 2 points ago +2 / -0

They are too young to remember ussr, east and west Germany. Falklands. And so many more.

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AdmrlNelson 2 points ago +2 / -0

If you ever want imaginary Reddit points, just post a well articulated, conservative, common sense opinion on r/unpopularopinion

Also, pretty telling about the bias on Reddit when you see all the most upvoted posts that are "unpopular opinions" on Reddit, and they're all just normal conservative opinions 🤔

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DearCow 1 point ago +1 / -0

The history of the black mountains.

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Fizbin7 1 point ago +1 / -0

If you can take downtown Seattle, Columbus can take the fucking continent.

You want to appeal to heaven? Fine by me - we can kill you wholesale all over again. Don’t start what you can’t finish.

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FLWoman 1 point ago +1 / -0

That’s how the world still works. Remember Crimea?

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Adhal 1 point ago +1 / -0

Guess we better start getting an unpopularopinion.win up

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Gulleyfoyleismyname 1 point ago +1 / -0

Oops wrong thread.

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