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Old 06-25-2021, 11:53 AM   #727
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Originally Posted by stone hands View Post
Prehistoric colonial thinking of civilizing the savages, that's pretty much it

Cant have a bunch of people who are content to just live off the land and have a simple life devoid of the rat race of being industrious and "productive"

It's crazy. I guess this was seen as 'compassionate compromise' at the time.
"Hey, it's better than genocide". Residentials schools all the way from Canada to South America.
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