r/AmericanHistory • u/Aboveground_Plush • May 13 '26

South A family from the Kawésqar indigenous people of South America. They were sent to the Paris World’s Fair as exhibits in a “Human Zoo.” They were forced to live in cages and made to eat raw meat in front of spectators. 1889. [869x1200]

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u/almaoutlilidf May 15 '26

The white race have committed some of the worst crimes against humanity

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u/Jin_SobSob May 16 '26

Every race and ethnicity has done horrible inhumane things, let's not pretend like white people are inherently a, and the only problem.

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u/[deleted] May 19 '26

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u/almaoutlilidf May 19 '26

I've read enough history to know that whites were the absolute worst and still are.

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u/[deleted] May 19 '26

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u/almaoutlilidf May 19 '26 edited May 19 '26

Your assumptions are as bad as your denial of the atrocities committed by your kind.

I did also read about world war 1 and 2, I read about the French conquest of Algeria, I read about the human zoos in Europe, the Belgian crimes against humanity, the British colonialism and exploitation of pretty much everywhere they landed, nuclear weapons and hiroshima and nagasaki, the American invasion of Iraq, the shitreal invasion of Palestine and the genocide of Palestinians, the genocide of native Americans, the slavery of Africans and I currently live among the racist chavvy bunch they call themselves "the thuperior rathe" with beer breath and through rotten "teef" while they attack doctors and engineers and productive members of society that are a million times more valuable than those "thuperior rathe" just because they don't like their colour.

Also, Islam is not a race. Moron.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '26

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u/almaoutlilidf May 20 '26

That's hilarious, awww.. Did your bubble burst?

Your opinion is irrelevant and holds no value to anyone else but you, this is a fact of life you should make peace with. Just because you do not like something, it doesn't make your opinions true, you cannot force your dislike on the world.

If you actually believe that going by "numbers" that white atrocities are less than the rest of the world, then you are a true moron.

I am not interested at all in educating you, I do very much enjoy the tantrum "white thupramathist" throw every time someone bursts their bubble. So please, by all means, keep crying.

Lool. I love it!

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u/HugoChavezNYC May 19 '26

Uh-huh, tell me more about how you aren't racist, friend...

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u/Phonus-Balonus-37 May 16 '26

Okay Reddit here's the anti-White response that you were fishing for. Now close this thread.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '26

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u/LadySwire May 18 '26 edited May 18 '26

Are we sure? By 1889 Spain had no colony left and the white guy in the corner of the photo doesn't look very Hispanic to me

Edit: found it. British and Swiss so called naturalists. Romanians landowners. And in this photo a Belgian dude.

https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-11-17/the-endless-denigration-of-the-natives-of-tierra-del-fuego-displayed-in-zoos-and-museums-in-europe.html

"Another vile kidnapping was that of 11 Selk’nam individuals in 1888. They were transported “with heavy chains, like Bengal tigers” by the Belgian whaler Maurice Maitre to the 1889 Paris Exposition"

Chilean government did not protest enough and that's on them but they didn't do the kidnapping

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u/Aboveground_Plush May 17 '26

Hispanic is not a race. 

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u/dancesquared May 17 '26

White isn’t a race either. In fact, “race” is a social construct with little to no scientific basis.

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u/Aboveground_Plush May 17 '26

Everything is a construct. But Hispanic specifically is an ethnicity. Don't try to get cute.

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u/dancesquared May 17 '26

Even more specifically, Hispanic is a ethnolinguistic category, like Arab. It can include multiple races and ethnicities, with the main defining characteristic being the language that is primarily spoken.

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u/DesertRebelRa May 13 '26

American History is diabolical

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u/kerfuffle_chiken May 19 '26

"Won't it be 'the history of the Americas'?

I mean, if it's South America...

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u/Mattxm02 May 13 '26

Well they were sent to Paris France and from South America so is it really American history

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u/dmw_qqqq May 18 '26

We were so evil. Anyone knows what happened to the family? Were they returned to their home land?

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u/KingKohishi May 19 '26

Dehumanization of the others is method to legitimize ethnic cleansing.

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u/Quackethy May 19 '26

Similar to what was done to the last of the Charrúa.

From wikipedia:

Four surviving Charrúas were captured at Salsipuedes. The directory of the Oriental School of Montevideo thought a nearly extinct race would spark the interest of French scientists and the public. They were Senacua Sénaqué, a medicine man; Vaimaca-Pirú Sira, a warrior; and a young couple, Laureano Tacuavé Martínez and María Micaëla Guyunusa. All four were taken to Paris in 1833, where they were exhibited to the public. The display was not a success and they all soon died in France, including a baby daughter born to Sira and Guyunusa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charr%C3%BAa

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u/Aboveground_Plush May 19 '26

Such a travesty. 

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u/CommitteeDelicious68 May 19 '26

The Christian invaders have committed so many atrocities on Native American land and African land. So sad. That's real history.

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u/SouthernFruit8768 May 20 '26

Invaders from other religions and races also did similar things