• YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today
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    1 day ago

    That is a gross simplification. We’re the first people here great people? Absolutely not! But to boil them down to one zinger is very dishonest, at best. And remind me what was going down in Europe around that time? Oh, the church was murdering people that didn’t prescribe to their very specific belief structure, including scholars?

    Here’s some good key words for you to try searching the next time you’re making shit up about that time period.

    Hasbergs

    Fredrick V

    Matthias

    • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world
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      To be fair the pilgrims were offered sanctuary in other countries first and then got mad that everyone wasn’t exactly like them. That said a lot of the other initial colonizers were people being outright evicted from their home countries for non-religious reasons.

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      Hasbergs

      Habsburgs?

      Fredrick V

      Who? There were lots of European monarchs of that name and number

      Matthias

      Who? It’s a pretty common name.

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      You’re right. They were also a bunch of genocidal hypocrites who, “believed all men were created equal” yet enslaved multiple continents while raping their way across it

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        20 hours ago

        who, “believed all men were created equal”

        Who claimed to believe