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Americans don’t consider the founding fathers and Lincoln to be heroes?

See this is what I'm talking about when I said that your posts are missing information. The founding fathers are a huge group of people with a wide variety of background and involvement in various things. Some were slave owners, some were abolitionists, some were farmers, some ran mills, some literally were just popular people. Outside of a handful, most aren't really well remembered because their actions were important for a specific thing and as a collective (signing the Declaration of Independence and creating the US Constitution). Outside of this their cohesion is a bit of a mess.

Furthermore, the founding fathers of the Declaration of Independence and the founding fathers of the US Constitution had some overlap, but those groups were more than 10 years apart. I know a lot of Europeans blend things within a short period as being the same since the history of those regions is so long, but in the USA it can be extremely different. The founding fathers in 1776 and 1790 were fighting Native Americans, but a large portion of that was as part of the Revolutionary War. The Native tribes actually fought on both sides of the war and were hurt by the British and Americans alike (the Natives also had their share of shitty actions as well).

In the late 1700's and early 1800's there were some abuses which the founding fathers would have been involved in, but conflicts at this time were much more balanced. Some reservations were setup, but reservations at this time are different from your earlier usage, it was more like agreeing upon the boundaries of the natives land. The Native tribes treated for land individually while the USA treated as a group, so each group delineated their land separately from each other and then the US got everything in between.

The main atrocities were committed in the mid-late 1800's (~1830 - 1890) of which Lincoln was only a really small, but very impactful portion. More significant was the likes of Andrew Jackson who effectively dumped gas on the handling of the Natives and until Trump was widely considered the worst President by modern opinion. Jackson is also probably the cause for the change in usage of Reservations as they became purely about dislocating people from their land.

Earlier I said that short spans of time need to not be blended together, part of that is because the USA was rapidly expanding through Manifest Destiny. Lincoln wasn't a founding father, but his involvement was mostly focused around his short Presidency and the Civil War. Lincoln did have some involvement with Native Americans, but most of it was through the lens of the American Civil War. Lincoln handled the Dakota War of 1862 which took place in Minnesota. Minnesota had recently become a State, it had been a territory since 1849, but the cause for the Dakota War was bad treaties which Congress signed in 1851 (2 years after Lincoln had left congress and 10 years before he became president).

Lincoln swiftly moved to crush the Dakota War which had ~150 casualties to keep his focus on the Civil War. Lincoln did agree with Manifest Destiny and did allow settlers to continue moving west, but his tenure saw comparatively little abuse of Native Americans. During the Dakota War the Natives were eventually captured and given trial, Lincoln pardoned 264 of the 392 natives and the rest were hung. Here is a decent read about Lincoln's relationship to Native Americans (https://www.history.com/news/abraham-lincoln-native-americans).

As to your second comment

Also, feeling bad about something you’re perpetuating is worthless. It’s like killing someone but doing it with your eyes closed because you feel bad

I never said anyone felt bad, I said it's shitty to debate who committed more genocide, you can call the destruction of 90% of the population collateral damage all you want, but it is what it is. You can say that England or Europe didn't do what the USA did (biological warfare aside), but you're factually wrong and need to read up on it a lot more.

If you're talking about the modern treatment of Native Americans it's really not the issue that it once was. Historically misrepresentation, discrimination, and reparations were the big issues for Native Americans. Now it's more to do with their low total population and pseudo self isolation. Things like environmental impacts, mistaken appropriation, lack of resources or economic growth on reservations are the bigger issues for Natives and are more specific to Native Americans which live on the reservations and isn't the case for every reservation.

I think that's my main thing, you really just don't know what you're talking about, but you want some outlet to say how much you hate the USA. Go read up, there are plenty of reasons to hate the USA, but your argument here is pretty poor.

Here's some recommended reading on shitty things Europeans did to the Native Americans in the USA

• Pequot War (~13k massacred Pequots)
• Kieft's War (1600 massacred natives)
• Beaver Wars (Casualties unknown, but this is when accidental exposure to small pox really took off)
• Siege of Fort Pitt and Henry Bouquet (One of the earliest known cases of intentionally spreading small pox, Bouquet was a Swiss mercenary working for Britain and wrote about doing it)
• King Phillips War (2,800 massacred natives)