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Question about the genocide of Indigenous people in Australia (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by jiaminglimjm@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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If the death rate of smallpox is 30%, and apparently 'majority' of the Indigenous people there died from smallpox, how did their population decline by 90%?

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[–] atomicshrimp@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I posted this on the perthchat [matrix] and got:

To put it bluntly Genocide

We're still digging up unmarked graves of Indigenous children

So I would be very wary of the statistic about how the majority died

In fact, that is not something I was ever taught, the smallpox reasoning

Sounds like a handwashing exercise

[–] jiaminglimjm@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

good to hear that there are teachers are not mindlessly parroting propaganda

[–] atomicshrimp@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

not much of a history buff myself

there was this whole 'stolen generation' event here where we were like kidnapping their children and trying to breed them with white people, it was dark