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That's an, uh, extremely suspect phrasing there, school textbook (infosec.pub)

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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 198 points 2 months ago (20 children)

Explanation: For those of you who are not aware of European colonial history in the Americas, the First Nations 'agreed' to move only at gunpoint - when, of course, they were not shot outright and agreements eschewed completely. The phrasing here makes it sound much less like ethnic cleansing, when, you know, it was ethnic cleansing.

[–] kubica@fedia.io 47 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The phrasing and also that tiny drawing near the headline.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Settler: I'll give you these piles of bills for this land, so you'll be rich.

Native: what are these green papers

[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It probably wasn't green at the time since ya know the US didn't exist much less dollar bills and cotton money instead of coinage and various types of paper banknotes.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago

Also, this was Canada.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Damn, I completely missed that XD

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