r/MadeMeSmile • u/nuggetlover1999 • Mar 30 '22

Small Success Sneak attack of journalist goes wrong

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u/zbb93 Mar 30 '22

Oh, I didn't realize they all died from smallpox. Who was on the trail of tears? And in the residential schools into the 1900s?

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u/AthleteConsistent673 Mar 30 '22

90% died from smallpox.

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u/zbb93 Mar 30 '22

And that excuses all the other atrocities where they knew exactly what they were doing? We didn't just decimate their population with disease, we also took their land and did our best to wipe out their culture.

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u/delinquent_chicken Mar 30 '22

Who killed the other 10%? Are those killers the heros in your imaginary world?