You are absolutely right. I was thinking about Open Veins and Memory of Fire by Eduardo Galeano and about it’s impossible to correctly fathom the Native American Holocaust. Compared to the “great Reich” as you put it, all the other ones are Fischer Price, my first genocide, even the horror we see in Palestine.
Going back in time to kill Hitler shouldn’t be the cliche, it should be sinking Columbus’s ships.
Agreed, Columbus (and the conquistadors, and the US’ “founding fathers”) were monsters even for their time (though celebrated as “our monsters” by the settler and imperialist societies). Washington’s name among the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) was “Conotocaurius”- which translates to, among various things, “Town Destroyer,” “Burner of Towns,” and “Destroyer of Villages.”
You are absolutely right. I was thinking about Open Veins and Memory of Fire by Eduardo Galeano and about it’s impossible to correctly fathom the Native American Holocaust. Compared to the “great Reich” as you put it, all the other ones are Fischer Price, my first genocide, even the horror we see in Palestine.
Going back in time to kill Hitler shouldn’t be the cliche, it should be sinking Columbus’s ships.
Agreed, Columbus (and the conquistadors, and the US’ “founding fathers”) were monsters even for their time (though celebrated as “our monsters” by the settler and imperialist societies). Washington’s name among the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) was “Conotocaurius”- which translates to, among various things, “Town Destroyer,” “Burner of Towns,” and “Destroyer of Villages.”