Comments by "Voryn Rosethorn" (@vorynrosethorn903) on "The Forgotten Genocide of New Zealand | Maori Warriors, Moriori, New Zealand Wars" video.

  1. It generally describes people's whom engaged in routine savagery. It was common across the major civilisations of Eurasia to term people such with reasons varying from watering down wine to ritual child sacrifice, as such while it said as much about the morals of the society using it as that it was used against it certainly had utility as a word. Today it is less useful but only so long as a the stripping away of the term doesn't lead to misguided romantication, white washing or ignorance of the specific reasons for the label being applied on the specific culture or people in the first place. Too often it turns into indirect apologism or denialism of the sort of actions covered in this video.
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  2. The Assyrians are the earliest that I can think of who left written record of their targeted annihilation of people groups (usually subject ones whom had rebelled). That then gets into wherever city states count as distinct groups even if they tick all the box's, for example did Alexander the great commit a genocide in his eradication of Thebes.
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  3. Ancient Druids and such belonged to cultures considered barbarian to this day. Beyond genetic lineage there is little remaining of pre Greco-Roman and Christian morally or culturally, the later states made presences of being Imperial, Canaanite or Troyan in origin with the the Imperial veneer being by far the most deep with titles, organisational structures and philosophies all being rooted in that heritage. If genetic determinism was at play then the ascendancy of northern Europe is incomprehensible as likewise the pitiable state of Italy and Greece are. If you are embarrassed by the state of your nation or identity then stop making excuses for its negative aspects and instead adopt positive replacements from proven society's, beggars can't be choosers and there is no pride in failure. Few care that western administrative traditions have Persian roots it's the success of them that is lauded not the origin.
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