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Mameluke
Aug 2, 2013

by Fluffdaddy
The closest event to a first contact in human history is the discovery of the Americas, so I really hope we're not found in my lifetime.

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Mameluke
Aug 2, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

Fojar38 posted:

An event that was far more complex than "white people kill non-white people"

Of course. I think of the one of the arguments put forward in the book 1491, which essentially boiled down to "the very first livestock introduced by the Spanish carried diseases that cut through an unprepared population, vastly depopulating swathes of the Americas before any whiteys showed up in person."

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