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Skippy_99b t1_iqm5f30 wrote

Didn’t we already know this about the pacific and Caribbean islands? …or is this another type of suppressed critical race theory…

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kat_a_klysm t1_iqmh5sy wrote

Idk if I learned it in school, but I definitely knew about it. I’ve heard “small pox blankets” referenced when discussing what the colonizers did to the indigenous folks in the Americas. Same type of stuff.

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insaneintheblain t1_iqoz54q wrote

A lot of history is traditionally passed down orally, and often through the use of symbols signifying universal truths. When oral tradition is interrupted (for example when all your elders die of mysterious causes, or when all your children are sent to factory/reconditioning schools) then history must be re-discovered through archeology - an imperfect method of piecing together clues to reconstruct a best guess for what might’ve happened.

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Skippy_99b t1_irjj9p8 wrote

So hopefully one day they will figure out what happened to the Easter Islanders....

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