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by IAmBroom 231 days ago
> More importantly, everything really was mostly "good, peaceful and stable ... until the colonizers" showed up. The disrupting factor were the pandemics that happened; not that one culture was superior than the other.

The peaceful, noble savage myth.

Native Americans engaged in wars, enslavement, and horrific torture - as did the Europeans.

The League of Five Nations was noted for a stable (and therefore largely peaceful) inter-tribe arrangement, but it was a new and exceptional development, just prior to the coincidental arrival of Europeans.

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Are you quoting me out of context to prove a point?

I'm pointing out that this statement is straight up racist, and disproven by historical record:

> Why was everything always good, peaceful and stable in "indigenous environments" until "the colonizers " show up? I find it hard to believe.