Do white people feel bad for taking away the natives lands?

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and committing genocide.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

No one alive today had anything to do with it. Why should anyone feel bad for something someone else did?

And besides that, the natives you speak of did exactly the same thing to the peoples who lived on the lands before them. The history of the Americas is a long line of peoples driving off and killing those who occupied the land before them. The same is true throughout human history on every continent on Earth, for as long as humans have existed.

I know that's not what you wanted to hear, because it doesn't support your victimology, but it's the truth of the matter.

Just get over it and move on with your life.

Leapfrog00 · Accepted Answer

My grandfather was an American Indian. He lived on a farm, slaughtered his own meat, grew his own vegetables. I do know he had a lot of problems with government corporations trying to declare his land eminent domain.

I do remember before he died a few years ago, he ended up selling his property. Where his farm was, there were a lot of land the Indians once owned, but it the government was trying to turn it into a larger town. When his mother, my great grandmother, first moved to that area, there were no stores, no gas stations, no businesses whatsoever. I think nowadays though, most of those places are gone.

CupcakeTheDestroyer · Accepted Answer

White guilt is and was a thing. Germans have also done their guilt and subsequently created strict anti-hate-speech laws to ban the politics that started the whole thing and prevent it from happening again

Uannoyme · Accepted Answer

As a white person, I say no. I didn't take anyone's land. I bought my land.

God_of_Thunder · Answer

I don't think it should have happened, and I think the people who did so were in the wrong.

However, I don't personally feel bad, nor guilty, because I wasn't involved in any of it. I took nobody's land, nor did I commit genocide, and neither was I in any position to stop it, since this all happened well before I existed.

RagnarRedbeard · Answer

Do we feel bad for doing the same thing everybody was doing back then, including native American tribes warring with each other over land? No.

Anonymous · Answer

after 450 years?

do japanese feel bad? or russians?

its history, deal with it

shoud we start with African continent? or you only critisize white people in US

never in my life saw more pathetic victims as in US, sad... you guys are sad af

BoopBoopBeep · Answer

Nope. There was a war. They lost. Both sides killed women and children, white people just did it better.

LazerBean · Answer

Nobody alive did that, so generally no because that would be stupid.

Iron_Man · Answer

Yes we did. It was not right to do that but I had nothing to do with it and I wouldn’t do it.

Anonymous · Answer

no... do you feel bad for giving the pilgrims venereal disease? I suppose not b/c i guess you weren't alive for another 220 years.

leahzrc · Answer

I feel bad about it but it wasn't me

gothbxtch · Answer

definitely SHOULD

KrakenAttackin · Answer

Nope.

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