Small isolated incidents (never mind how common Indians fought each other and DID massacre whites).
There are no more Delaware or Susquehano. They were killed off in a single night, having cheerfully entrusted themselves to what they believed were fellow Christians, and allowing their hands to be bound “for their own safety”. There are no more Osage. They died wealthy, but left no heirs, unless you count whichever robber baron profited from their demise.
Indians massacred whites, all right, but deliberate genocide is no “small isolated incident,” and while Indians did massacre whites, there were still plenty more whites around afterwards. The same cannot be said for the Delaware, the Susquehano, or the Osage. Granted, Col. Chivingston failed to annihilate the Cheyenne, and Senator/Chief/Judo expert Charles Nighthorse Campbell has not given us cause to regret that fact. But Red Lives Matter, too, and facts are stubborn things.
Don’t start with that. All lives matter. Uncapitalized.
(Of course, latter can be argued, too....did Hitler living matter to you?)
Again, many logical questions are raised, and sometimes it DOES seem we are being told some lives matter much more than others based on who gets all the press and sympathy. And shamed for it, too, even when it does not involve us.
Again, one of those questions is, “is it better to kill anyone randomly equally, or to target groups”? Sophie’s choice?