Considering that my grasp on American history is fail, I got mixed up.
Okay, so he said that American Indians were hanging around at huge numbers, then they got sick from... pre-Columbian explorers like... who? The Chinese? - and then all died at 95% rates?
Wow. You're right, even the fucking Black Death didn't manage that.
The white people will do ANYTHING to say that the land was empty so they can have damn frontier stories, wouldn't they? Up to and including saying that the population of natives on that same land were dying out first.
Wow. Just... wow. It niggled at me that a lot of Sci-fi is all about 'exploring the final frontier', but considering that a lot of Sci-fi is American based, with all the baggage that comes with it, I really shouldn't be surprised.
I just wish that American authors/publishing would stop acting like that's the only way sci-fi would be. Or the only way ANYONE would be.
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Okay, so he said that American Indians were hanging around at huge numbers, then they got sick from... pre-Columbian explorers like... who? The Chinese? - and then all died at 95% rates?
Wow. You're right, even the fucking Black Death didn't manage that.
The white people will do ANYTHING to say that the land was empty so they can have damn frontier stories, wouldn't they? Up to and including saying that the population of natives on that same land were dying out first.
Wow. Just... wow. It niggled at me that a lot of Sci-fi is all about 'exploring the final frontier', but considering that a lot of Sci-fi is American based, with all the baggage that comes with it, I really shouldn't be surprised.
I just wish that American authors/publishing would stop acting like that's the only way sci-fi would be. Or the only way ANYONE would be.