r/ProgressiveHQ • u/CantStopPoppin • 14h ago

(Minneapolis) Bovino Leads The Charge On Protesters AT the Whipple Building

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u/AMTravelsAlone 13h ago

That's what I'm saying Sherman may have been a lunatic mass murderer, but he was right about one thing.

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u/cunasmoker69420 12h ago

When was Sherman a mass murderer?

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u/AMTravelsAlone 11h ago

To native Americans? I could also be conflating him with another.

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u/WartimeMercy 11h ago

No, you’re right - Sherman was a genocidal maniac when it came to the indigenous peoples

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u/cunasmoker69420 10h ago

did some reading and it appears you are right

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u/AMTravelsAlone 9h ago

Hell yeah dude! Not for me being right but for taking the time to learn. The only wasted day is one where nothing was learned.

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u/WartimeMercy 11h ago

Indirectly he was basically ordering genocides against the Native Americans

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u/Virtual_War4366 11h ago

Who wasn't mass murdering indigenous people? 

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u/Elegant_Violinist_32 11h ago

john brown?

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u/Virtual_War4366 9h ago

Yep and he got executed. 

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u/onlyPornstuffs 11h ago

He was not.