FPO disc golfer Hailey King made this statement on her Instagram account:

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And who were the original people treating the natives terrible?

Other natives. Really, really terribly.

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Tribal conflict was ritualized and self regulated. We weren't slaughtering each other in the millions.

Europeans turned it into an industrial process by slaughtering and torturing everyone and everything.

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Slamming babies on rocks and enslaving and raping women! Noble rituals indeed!

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Bruh, check out the Heyoka. These fuckers were ritual security. If you acted out of line they'd bash your skull in on the spot.

They carried a staff with scalps on it. Sometimes infant scalps.

These were warrior cultures through and through.

Not genocidal cultures pursuing money and resources.

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A murder is a murder you cultist. There’s nothing cool about brandishing a staff with infant scalps on it. For profit or for some long lost god, it’s all the same and should be viewed as such. 

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Well the interesting part is the overlap between indigenous ritual and Christianity.

Out in South America you had a ritual where a girl was chosen as a living deity, as a surrogate for this Goddess of nature. She was adorned with all this love and these possessions. During the height of this ritual she was killed and eaten by the tribe.

It was the Eucharist. Difference is the Christians lost where it came from. Blood and body of God being eaten by his flock.

Instead of the missionaries thinking "maybe humans are hardwired for this for some reason" they thought "the devil came here and taught them to make fun of White Jesus". lol.

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What…the…fuck. Just stop man. Barbarism is always bad. No matter the amount of melanin. 

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Man, I thought I had lost a maximum number of brain cells reading through this post thread already, but this guy has really taken it over the edge.

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Hahahahah right? I wasn’t even sure what the angle was at a certain point. I thought I was having a stroke. 

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Lol

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We weren't slaughtering each other in the millions.

That's only because they lacked the technology and the know-how. Don't act like it was some spiritual act of war. It was brutal and horrific. Just like all war.

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Counting coup was more important than outright slaughter. We weren't inventing chemical warfare or attempting to split an atom to kill more people.

That's not to say we weren't metal as fuck, because we were.

Warriors would lob off sections of fingers to enter an ecstatic state in order to have visions. Sitting Bull danced while getting chunks of flesh cut out of his arms in order to have visions.

When we were captured by a rival tribe we were stoic until the end, and then we danced and accepted death before getting ritually killed.

Customs for keeping each other in check existed.

White people - your kind, were far more blood thirsty than that.

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That's not to say we weren't metal as fuck, because we were.

"You" weren't anything because "you" weren't there. Being native American doesn't tie you any closer to those times than being Japanese makes me a fucking Samurai

All you have is passed down stories (if that). The Greek, Spartans, Romans, Samurai, Vikings etc. all tell the same tales. It wasn't until modern warfare with documented facts that war went from romanticized stories of glorious, spiritual (pick your cultures favorite feeling) "self regulated" conflict to the beastial , atrocious blood bath it really is.

"The only people who see glamour in war are bards and kings. Neither of which are on the battlefield."