Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:47:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: dicconf <dicconf at radix.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Third Friday Minutes
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Mike B. wrote:

> At 08:29 AM 4/25/05 -0400, dicconf wrote:
> >
> >generous estimates, and they were sedentary farmers.  We probably caused
> >the deaths of around forty million American Indians, which was maybe 70-80
>
> What you mean "we" white man?  Speak for yourself (if you like).  I wasn't
> there, and neither were my ancestors.  The first in my family who got here
> did so in the 1890s, long after most of the events under discussion.

I haven't noticed any Amerinds appending "-- except for those whose
ancestors got here after the fighting was practically all over" to their
denunciations of white-eye treachery and crime.

> The tendency to blame evey member of a race for the actions of some members
> of that race has a name...

Yes.  "Oversimplification".

-- Dick Eney