Most racist Free Republic post ever...

[JohnLocke]

I rarely venture over there, but in the first three minutes found this gem...

That is because China is an ancient civilization, and people there have been living on that land for hundreds of thousands of years, exploiting it for their benefit. On the other hand, North America was unpopulated up until about 10,000-15,000 years ago, and even then by savage tribes who did not possess the tools of civilization. They were unable to exploit the land the same way a superior civilization would have. The presence of civilized people on this continent is less than 500 years old.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1836390/posts

Guy who posted it is an old-timer, registered since 2002. Wonder how many white hoods he has in his closet?

[More Than A Feeling]

1. This person's "most civilized country"? Nazi Germany, just before the Battle of Britain.

This person clearly equates civilization with domination. Probably a fan of Stalinism and Pol Pot, too.

[SoCalDem]

2. and look at the damage we "civilized" people have done to it.

"savages" at least knew enough to follow the food, and to not plunder an area until life became unsustainable..

even animals know enough to not shit in their own drinking water..

[DBoon]

3. Native Americans had civilization

When this guy's ancestors were dying themselves blue with woad and running naked through the forests of Europe

[shenmue]

8. Pot and kettle...

:dunce:

[DBoon]

18. only the accident of a few centuries separates civilized from uncivilized

people that crow about their superiority over "savages" aren't that far from "savagery" themselves. The most advanced civilizations many times have very recent histories.

Go back a few thousand years (a short time in human history) and you will find the tables have turned many times. The English (or Anglii) were savage tribes to the Romans.

We are all pots and kettles in that way

[BR_Parkway]

4. But Jeebus didn't make the world before 6,000 years ago, Satan is

in that guys mind just trying to confuse him.

[ToeBot]

5. Well obviously North America starts at the Rio Grande...

otherwise you would have to include the Meso-American's and don't forget the Inca down there in South America.

[John1956PA]

6. The Mayan astronomers understood the precession of the equinoxes.

That was long before the Catholic church in Italy tortured Galileo into recanting his proclamation that the the sun is at the center of the solar system. To be fair, I am not sure that the Mayans understood that the earth orbits the earth. Nonetheless, to say that native Americans "did not process the tools of civilization" is ridiculous.

[EFerrari]

12. As my uncle used to say, we figured out zero while you guys

were still painting yourselves blue and talking to trees.

lol

[EstimatedProphet]

23. Actually, the earth orbits the sun

Just sayin

[John1956PA]

25. Thanks for catching my mistake, EP. : )

N/T

[krispos42]

7. The whole of Eurasia has had people on it for a very long time

South and Central America has, IIRC 3 major advanced civilizations before the Spanish came: the Incans, the Mayans, and the Aztecs. And the Spanish I believe destroyed two of them.

North America was more tribal in nature, I believe. And it is true that the natives in North America were not able to work the land like other civilizations were able to.

However, didn't the Aztecs have bronze?

[pscot]

14. They Maya also seem to have had

ritual human sacrifice, and to have depleted their environment pretty severely efore the Spaniards arrived. It's tempting to idealize native culture, but it's also easy to find yourself skating on thin ice.

[bahrbearian]

9. Your not old enough to be over there without an escort,,

you stay here were its safe.

[pscot]

10. Mildly atavistic

but not out of line with attitudes widely held a few generations back. The guy's not a klu kluxer, just a troglodite.

[EFerrari]

11. Because "exploitation" is so civilized!

I hope Mom doesn't let this one out of the basement.

[hyphenate]

13. I am sure that

the Mayans, the Aztecs and the Anasazi would agree with this guy, huh? :sarcasm:

What a witless prick.

[JohnLocke]

15. Or the Mississippian mound-builders!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippian_culture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mound_builders

[melody]

16. superiority = exploitation .... hmmmm ...

Well, there are so many irrational acceptances and inaccuracies in that post, it's hard to know where to begin.
I'll just deal with it by saying, "he's a frickin' moron."

[madrchsod]

17. it`s really amazing that people like him

have`t a clue about to much of anything at all. i doubt he even got out of grade school

[bluestateguy]

19. OK fine. By his logic "Old Europe" is more civilized than America

By his logic, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Sweeden are more civilized than America, and therefore, we should aspire to being more like those countries.

[Madspirit]

20. Ann Coulter

"God gave us the earth. We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the trees. God said, 'Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It's yours.'"---Ann Coulter on Hannity & Colmes, 6/20/01

[KingFlorez]

21. Not only racist, but completely idiotic

Native Americans came here 12,000 years ago and were highly civilized and they had tools, plus their societies were advanced. This idiot doesn't even know history.

[BlooInBloo]

28. They're the wrong sort of people to read anything like Guns, Germs, and Steel.

[Phredicles]

22. I've been reading Charles Mann's "1491"; I don't know where to start

on what a mega-dumbass our old-time freeper here is.

I will mention (and I've seen this even before this book, but in far less detail) that there's ample evidence to indicate people have been living in the Americans for some 40,000 years, and maybe longer.

[EstimatedProphet]

24. Well, Freepers are shitheels

They don't change their opinions when proved wrong, they'd rather believe wrong things and rewrite history. I'm sure he thinks that Iraq is populated by stone-age 'camel jockeys' too.

[Swamp Rat]

26. LOL! ... cue the banjo music.

:D

[Odin2005]

27. The Mayans, Aztecs, Incans, and Mound Builders were "savage tribes"? What a Moran

The only real handicap they had was a lack of metal tools and horses. In everything else they were the equals to Old World civilizations. The Classical Maya in particular have always fascinated me.