Golden_Gonads wrote: ↑Thu, 9. Sep 21, 11:48
The native tribes in the America's fought one another just as readily as Europeans did.
On wikipedia I'd say [citation needed], specifically for the wording and generalisation. Intertribal 'wars' may have been the case at the time when the Europeans arrived, contemporary to the late medieval/rennaissance period, and the centuries before. Not too much is known about Paleoamericans between the arrival of humans ~17000 years ago (discussed) and Columbus. Though central Americans had quarrels pre-Columbian too, but even there we're talking about 2000 BC and later. In the old world, organized war starts with the invention of metals in the bronze age. That's just ~5000 years ago, 200 generations ... a wink of an eye if I may say so.
~17000 years of human occupation in the Americas cannot compare to the 3 million years of human evolution in the rest of the world. Am as sorry as possible, but America plays no role in the evolution of humans, and shouldn't be put as a generalisation for human behaviour.
Anyway past violence is not an excuse not to change things. We're intelligent enough to judge on our own, removing a symbol of intolerance is a step in the right direction, though many of those are left.
This was just an opinion, *hough*