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Originally Posted by jpatterson
I feel the need to comment on the "genocide" of Native Americans. Yes, Native Americans were treated poorly. Many were indiscriminately killed. However, most were not. This does not qualify the term genocide. If it were a genocide, Native Americans would be but a memory.
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By that logic the Holocaust wasn't genocide either, since the Germans didn't come close to killing all the Jews in Europe. What happened to the Native Americans was a prolonged case of both ethnic cleansing and genocide and in fact the vast majority of Native Americans did die out.