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Minnesota Senator: “I’m not a historian of Minnesota, but I do understand that the genocides between white people and Indians included several genocides each way.” | Boing Boing:

His attempt at rewriting history involves blocking SF 2442, a bill that aims to teach middle and high school students about the Holocaust and genocides. Drazkowski doesn’t let his self-processed ignorance get in the way of spouting ahistorical “both-sides” nonsense about white settlers dying in genocidal slaughters perpetrated by Native Americans.

“You know — and I grew up in Wisconsin, so I’m not a historian of Minnesota,” he said on the senate floor, “but I do understand that the genocides between the white people and the Indians going back included, kind of several genocides each way.”