In which it is demonstrated that Tucker needs a remedial refresher in bombast from his political masters
Tucker thought we needed to know this:
Tucker's idiotic hyperbole actually just strengthens my argument and provides another example of Vox Day's point. The so-called "native" Americans were powerless to avert the European migration and we all know the outcome of that. Where Tucker falls short as well is in his underlying assumption that the Europeans desire was multiculturalism. It was most decidedly not.
Also, as usual, Tucker's pollyanna notion of the "noble savages" inhabiting the continent when the Europeans arrived fails to serve him well. There were literally hundreds of native "cultures" extant on the North American continent. Tucker would like us to believe that there was some great confederation of Indian tribes that the Europeans overcame and robbed. This is patently silly in the face of the evidence. For example, the primary activity of a large number of the Eastern tribes was conquest and genocide directed at competing tribes. In many cases, Eastern "natives" allied themselves with the Europeans when their goals of conquest were aligned. If the Europeans were guilty of theft, they were most amply aided and abetted by elements of the "native" population. In some cases, genocidal frenzy between two tribes resulted in both being decimated and the Europeans simply moved in and mopped up. There are some interesting parallels to current events there.
With regard to Tucker's ridiculous notion of a homogeneous "native" population, it would have been nearly impossible to point to some group of indigenous people and identify them as "native." The archaeological and anthropological evidence suggests that the Inuits were probably the earliest tribe established in North America. The evidence also suggests that they arrived from Asia across the Bering Strait. Indeed, since even creationists and evolutionists agree that human life on this planet originated in Upper Africa, any notion of a "native" North American population will always be constrained to whatever happened to be the last successful migration.
"Native culture"???
Do you mean like native-Americans??? Oh yeah that's right....you won't even admit that Europeans stole this land from the REAL natives will you?
Tucker's idiotic hyperbole actually just strengthens my argument and provides another example of Vox Day's point. The so-called "native" Americans were powerless to avert the European migration and we all know the outcome of that. Where Tucker falls short as well is in his underlying assumption that the Europeans desire was multiculturalism. It was most decidedly not.
Also, as usual, Tucker's pollyanna notion of the "noble savages" inhabiting the continent when the Europeans arrived fails to serve him well. There were literally hundreds of native "cultures" extant on the North American continent. Tucker would like us to believe that there was some great confederation of Indian tribes that the Europeans overcame and robbed. This is patently silly in the face of the evidence. For example, the primary activity of a large number of the Eastern tribes was conquest and genocide directed at competing tribes. In many cases, Eastern "natives" allied themselves with the Europeans when their goals of conquest were aligned. If the Europeans were guilty of theft, they were most amply aided and abetted by elements of the "native" population. In some cases, genocidal frenzy between two tribes resulted in both being decimated and the Europeans simply moved in and mopped up. There are some interesting parallels to current events there.
With regard to Tucker's ridiculous notion of a homogeneous "native" population, it would have been nearly impossible to point to some group of indigenous people and identify them as "native." The archaeological and anthropological evidence suggests that the Inuits were probably the earliest tribe established in North America. The evidence also suggests that they arrived from Asia across the Bering Strait. Indeed, since even creationists and evolutionists agree that human life on this planet originated in Upper Africa, any notion of a "native" North American population will always be constrained to whatever happened to be the last successful migration.
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