Marsden defends anti-Indian column

Apparently writer Rachel Marsden got her butt kicked by readers for her racist attack on Indians. Her latest column on the superiority of white people is more moderate and a bit defensive. But it's so false or misleading that it's arguably worse. Therefore, let's rip Marsden to pieces once again.

White guilt has no boundaries: now the Vancouver Olympics crowd are lecturing me about Native American genocide

By Rachel MarsdenI criticise the crappy Vancouver 2010 Olympic logo that happens to be American Indian, and the marginalising of European immigrants in Games merchandising, and get branded a racist.You criticized Native history and culture, liar. Presumably you were branded a racist because your column attacked and insulted an entire race.Oh, but I left out “genocide”. Silly me! You know, the genocide of Native Americans, as described by Leftists, that didn’t even take place in Canada. But white guilt and the imposition thereof apparently has no boundaries.Genocide "didn’t even take place in Canada"?! You mean no white Canadians ever stole the Indians' land, forced them onto reserves, banned their cultures and languages, or shanghaied them into boarding schools? I suspect that'll be news to a few million Canadian Natives.

For more on this subject, see Natives Respond on Canadian Colonialism.Mentioning the words “Native” and “European” in the same column has triggered the University of Starbucks Magna Cum Latte history club to dump lengthy, biased, anti-European rants into my inbox about the “genocide” European immigrants perpetrated on American Indians. In Canada? My response: go throw yourselves into the gaping mouth of a spirit bear the next time one comes charging out of the recesses of your brainwashed skull while toking up.My response: "Spirit bear"? Did you think Disney's Brother Bear was an authentic look at Canada's Natives? Apparently you're as ignorant and prejudiced about Native religion as you are about every other aspect of Native culture.How about some inconvenient facts? The Natives owned slaves in the Americas. Indeed, Mohawk chief Joseph Brant in Canada had a ton of black slaves when the slave trade was abolished by the British, to whom he had previously sold a seven year-old black girl."How about some inconvenient facts?" How about a kindergarten-level lesson in logic? Are you seriously offering the intellectually and morally bankrupt argument that "two wrongs make a right"? It doesn't matter what the Indians, Armenians, Jews, or Rwandans did before they were victims of genocide because genocide is inexcusable.

"The Natives owned slaves in the Americas"...yeah, read all about it in Indians Owned Slaves. And the Caucasians owned slaves in Europe. So the hell what? Since when does slavery justify genocide? If you rob a bank, can I kill your family and steal your house before I throw you into jail? No, stupid.

Indians beheaded each other?!American Indians may have done many admirable things, and theirs was a fascinating culture, and some terrible things were done to them, but they were also raping, beheading, killing and starving each other long before the Europeans arrived.Now you're praising Indians? Before you said America was a "wilderness" inhabited by "third-worldish" savages. Which is why I'm guessing you got your butt kicked by readers.

Raping? There's no possible way to prove pre-Columbian Indians raped people. No doubt they did, but it's asinine to claim this as a provable "fact."

Beheading? The Aztecs may have beheaded some people, but it wasn't a widespread practice on two continents. I'm sure Europeans beheaded many more people with their steely swords and axes.

Starving? I'm sure Indians occasionally starved, but did they starve each other? Really? How? In a land of plenty, how did one tribe keep another tribe from obtaining food? By building walls around their farms and hunting grounds?

And what's your evidence for this? How could you possibly prove that one pre-Columbian tribe intentionally tried to eliminate another pre-Columbian tribe by depriving it of food? Sheer idiocy.

All these claims are ridiculous and worthless speculation. They're further evidence of Marsden's obvious racism.That hasn’t stopped historical ignoramuses from trying to peddle the myth that Indians were just sitting around making macramé and commiserating profoundly with the likes of Bambi and Thumper, which somehow prompted the Europeans to spontaneously go postal.The only historical ignoramus who's peddling myths is you, Marsden. People like me are countering your racist views about Indians with the actual facts about them.

Europeans didn't need a reason to "go postal." They were going postal long before they crossed the ocean and encountered Indians. For centuries, empires large and small vied for control of the continent, a scenario largely absent from the Americas.

In other words, the Europeans' culture was and is based on greed and selfishness. Their interpretation of the Bible told them to go forth and multiply and conquer. They believed God created them to rule the world's lesser species.When the new settlers arrived in America and found themselves in a mix of disorder, fighting and killing among Indians, they could have just volunteered to take an arrow in the chest to please future history professors.Found themselves in a mix of fighting and killing?! Europeans caused most of the strife by invading a foreign land, enslaving and killing its inhabitants, and bringing a host of unseen evils (diseases). It's incredible that Marsden uses the passive tense, shorn of responsibility, to excuse the Europeans for their moral crimes.

What the Europeans could've done was go home when the Indians told them to go home. Or not have invaded the Americas in the first place. More realistically, they could've tried to live in peace with their Native neighbors. Instead, they pressured or attacked the Indians whenever peace got in the way of greed.

Both sides guilty, so no one's guilty?But a long war of attrition ensued with huge casualties and cruelties on both sides. As the Europeans improved tactics and technology, their dominance prevailed, along with the societal order we know today--the most popular societal model in the world. And it’s that enormous cultural contribution that is being marginalised in official Vancouver Winter Olympics marketing. That’s all I’m saying.The so-called war of attrition was a war started by the Europeans in their avaricious quest for land, gold, slaves, and other goods. A war that continued because the lying, cheating invaders constantly signed peace treaties and then broke their word--literally every single time.

The Europeans' primary military "tactic" was watching Indians die of disease, doing nothing to help them, and praising God when they were dead. Other "tactics" include overwhelming Indians with sheer numbers and, again, breaking promises to let the Indians live in peace. When it came to warfare, the Indians held their own for centuries despite the Europeans' craven "tactics."

Are you under the moronic misapprehension that Europe was an unbroken chain of democracies from ancient Greece to the modern European Union? Again, sheer idiocy. "The most popular societal model" was the one Americans created by overthrowing the British model and instead emulating the indigenous model. You know, the "natural rights of man"? This concept came from the idea of living in harmony with nature, as God intended, free from manmade authority.As for Natives or anyone else who feels they have been hard done by--everyone has been screwed over in life. Most people don’t even have to dig back 100 years for it. Victimhood isn’t foisted upon you: it’s a choice made by you, as a capable human being, to hold yourself back and construct an identity around an excuse.

And the Olympic logo? Still sucks.Another repulsive apology for conquest, subjugation, oppression, and injustice. If someone is raping or pillaging you, don't complain. Just lie back and enjoy it. No one else can make you a crime victim; only you can make yourself one.

For more on this pro-racism position, see Trimble Apologizes for "Victimhood" Insults and Protesting Mascots = Victimhood?!

You haven't been screwed over by 500 years of genocidal European maniacs, Marsden. Nor have you been screwed over by 500 years of apologists for these maniacs' crimes against humanity. Apologists such as yourself, that is. Until you've suffered what they've suffered, you don't know what the hell you're talking about.

For more on the subject, see The Myth of Western Superiority, This Ain't No Party, This Ain't No Disco:  A Columbus Day Rant, and Native vs. Non-Native Americans:  A Summary.

Below:  An atomic bomb test. Western civilization proved its greatness by incinerating 140,000 people at Hiroshima. Yay us!