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[–] [email protected] 76 points 4 days ago (10 children)

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

I'd like to note that pre-Columbian contact estimates for the population of the Americas vary wildly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_history_of_the_Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas

[–] ryedaft 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'd like to note that conquistadors actively spread disease amongst natives. They knew what they were doing.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I mean, even if they didn't, the mass enslaving and slaughter performed by the conquistadors is enough to prove that they were evil genocidal fucks.

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