Tea Party - Anti-Communist Indian Killers??

Tea Party Tax Day Rally Participant with a Glenn Beck logic placard that proclaims that "George Washington Did Not Fight For Communism" says that Native Americans lived like communists but then decides that concludes it was wrong to kill them! Tax Day protest organized by FreedomWorks.

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[OnlyCommunistYouKnow]

I don't understand how anyone wouldn't want communism unless they are wealthy.

[ebecker2000]

@OnlyCommunistYouKnow Some may argue that the 1% can concentrate even more wealth in a centralized economy where there are fewer checks and balances.

[bighands69]

@amsterdam78

Your example of Russia is a very poor example.

Russia was a failed economic state and the only reason that it has grown was because it embraced capitalism just like China has done.

You say down all you want but america is still a leader in the fields of science and technology.

[amsterdam78]

Down with the American Republic, UP with a second Soviet Republic! Workers of the World Unite!

[therealbentown]

'it was all doled... out and everyone got their fair share' So people getting a fair share is bad now..?

[rbouverat]

@TheFlanker35 Then were in agreemant

[TheFlanker35]

@rbouverat,

No, the genocide that was done was as inexcusable back then as it is today. It just isn't the defining characteristics of our culture or history.

"Yes its awful but killing 100 million people is as or more despicable"

Morality can't be quantified like that.

Killing 100 million people is no different from killing 1 single innocent person as far as morality is concerned, and as I said, most of those 100 million probably weren't intentionally killed; smallpox wasn't understood.

[rbouverat]

@TheFlanker35 Ohhhhh so a few genocides are okay?

[TheFlanker35]

@rbouverat,

No, smallpox wiped out two continents of people. It nearly wiped out Europe first so the surviving Europeans had a lot of immunity to smallpox. So when they came to America, they could survive the smallpox, but the indigenous people couldn't. The Europeans had no way of knowing that at the time of the first settlements. There was some genocide like with Lord Geoffrey Amherst, but the vast majority was unintentional.

Also, we're not responsible for Spain's actions.