You'd think these people were trolling us, but they really believe this!

(No, that isn't a spam account. Simon is a "journalist" for The Nation and The Cut, and he's a graduate of Columbia!)

For thousands of years, there was utopia in America!

Before the dark times.

Before the white man.

Counterpoint:

All you have to do is pick up a history book not written by a racist woke person in the last 20 years and you'll see exactly what the earlier civilizations of America were up to.

Human sacrifice was practiced from the Andes in the tip of South America all the way up to the North American heartland:

Seriously, pick up a book or two.

Read about the atrocities that native tribes were regularly committing outside the framework of Christian ethics.

We can have a serious conversation about the injustices imposed on the natives by European settlers once you're better informed.

Here, let Colonel Nelson Miles, as depicted in the movie Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee, school you and Chief Sitting Bull in history:

Sitting Bull: You must take them out of our lands.

Col. Nelson Miles: What precisely are your lands?

Sitting Bull: These are the where my people lived before you whites first came.

Col. Nelson Miles: I don't understand. We whites were not your first enemies. Why don't you demand back the land in Minnesota where the Chippewa and others forced you from years before?

Sitting Bull: The Black Hills are a sacred land given to my people by Wakan Tanka.

Col. Nelson Miles: How very convenient to cloak your claims in spiritualism. And what would you say to the Mormons and others who believe that their God has given to them Indian lands in the West?

Sitting Bull: I would say they should listen to Wakan Tanka.

Col. Nelson Miles: No matter what your legends say, you didn't sprout from the plains like the spring grasses. And you didn't coalesce out of the ether. You came out of the Minnesota woodlands armed to the teeth and set upon your fellow man. You massacred the Kiowa, the Omaha, the Ponca, the Oto and the Pawnee without mercy. And yet you claim the Black Hills as a private preserve bequeathed to you by the Great Spirit.

Sitting Bull: And who gave us the guns and powder to kill our enemies? And who traded weapons to the Chippewa and others who drove us from our home?

Col. Nelson Miles: Chief Sitting Bull, the proposition that you were a peaceable people before the appearance of the white man is the most fanciful legend of all. You were killing each other for hundreds of moons before the first white stepped foot on this continent. You conquered those tribes, lusting for their game and their lands, just as we have now conquered you for no less noble a cause.

Col. Nelson Miles: This is the truth, not legend!

My great-great grandfather was Cherokee. Another great-great grandfather was French-German and never set foot in America. Even further back, one of my relatives was on the Mayflower.

To ignore the complexity of all our stories by boiling it down to Disney's Pocahontas is shameful. History is so much richer than that.

This is especially important because those who forget history will repeat it. If you really want to keep what happened between native tribes and European settlers from happening again – and if you really want to heal the wounds of the past – then stop brainwashing yourself in revisionist commie gobbledegook and educate yourself.