[HPforGrownups] Re: Off-Topic, but you asked, was: Peter (& Disney)

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 4834

Susan McGee wrote:

> We apologize for existing, these days.
> >
>
> Who is we in this sentence Amanda?

Any native of America not of Native American descent.

> Civilizing the wilderness as in giving native americans blankets
> infected with smallpox in order to get rid of them?
>
> Very civilized.

See, that's what I mean. Some decades ago, when the history of the frontier
was presented, it focused mainly on the positive aspects. Today, it focuses
mainly on the negative. We have yet to find a balance. This is like the wolf
debate, with the pro-wolf people saying no human has been killed by wolves,
etc., and the anti-wolf people saying they kill domestic animals en masse,
etc. Neither side is entirely correct, but neither is entirely
incorrect--they build emotional cases from selective evidence, to sway their
audience. A grey matter should not be presented as either white or black. My
comments were attempting to mark that in years past, it was white, now it
seems to be black, and we have yet to achieve grey.

--Amanda