American fascists by definition deny genocide. The extent to which a Nation denies the genocide it has committed is a measure of that Nation's social conscience. The social conscience of the United States is infected with numerous rationalizations that keep the dark light from shining. Federal and state institutions are named after mass murderers, and the land tells a story of massacres and atrocities that occurred. But the truth is not forgotten, it is denied. Genocide Denial is the 8th Stage of genocide, according to Gregory H. Stanton. It is the stage following “willful murder.” Furthermore, willful murder is not “tamed(ing) a continent.”
Donald Trump Says ‘Our Ancestors Tamed a Continent' and ‘We Are Not Going to Apologize for America’
President Donald Trump said at a Naval Academy commencement address Friday that “our ancestors tamed a continent,” adding that “we are not going to apologize for America.”
"Together there is nothing Americans can't do, absolutely nothing," Trump told 2018 graduates of the U.S. Naval Academy. “In recent years, and even decades, too many people have forgotten that truth. They've forgotten that our ancestors trounced an empire, tamed a continent, and triumphed over the worst evils in history."
“Our ancestors tamed a continent” is a method of Genocide Denial resembling this.
5. Rationalize the deaths as the result of tribal conflict
Perpetrators stress that the circumstances are the inevitable consequences to the history of relationships between the perpetrator and victim groups.
While it resembles the above, Tr*mp’s Genocide Denial of the American Indian needs its own category in Tr*mpism in my opinion.
American fascism is the term used by Dr. James Luther Adams, who "was in Germany in 1935 and 1936 and worked with the underground anti-Nazi church." He said that American fascists would dismantle the open society, using scripture, during "prolonged social instability or a national crisis." Either of those conditions certainly meets the living conditions on many reservations of their social structure and their Nation. Tr*mp is, as Madeleine Albright stated, "the most undemocratic president I have ever seen in American history. And so that's what worries me... – this is a warning.” And adding to her worry and warning in my opinion, is Tr*mp’s denying genocide of the American Indian “at a Naval Academy commencement address.”
Monday Methods: American Indian Genocide Denial and how to combat it
State of Denial
In the United States, an ostensibly subtle state of denial exists regarding portions of this country's history. One of the biggest issues concerning the colonization of the Americas is whether or not genocide was committed by the incoming colonists from Europe and their American counterparts. We will not be discussing today whether this is true or not, but for the sake of this discussion, it is substantially true. Many people today, typically those who are descendants of settlers and identify with said ancestors, vehemently deny the case of genocide for a variety of reasons. David Stannard (1992) explains this by saying:
Denial of massive death counts is common—and even readily understandable, if contemptible—among those whose forefathers were perpetrators of the genocide. Such denials have at least two motives: first, protection of the moral reputations of those people and that country responsible for genocidal activity . . . and second, on occasion, the desire to continue carrying out virulent racist assaults upon those who were the victims of the genocide in question (p. 152).
These reasons are predicated upon numerous claims, but all that point back to an ethnocentric worldview that actively works to undermine even the possibility of other perspectives, particularly minority perspectives. When ethnocentrism is allowed to proliferate to this point, it is no longer benign in its activity, for it develops a greed within the host group that results in what we have seen time and again in the world—subjugation, total war, slavery, theft, racism, and genocide. More succinctly, we can call this manifestation of ethnocentric rapaciousness the very essence of colonialism. More definitively, this term colonialism “refers to both the formal and informal methods (behaviors, ideologies, institutions, policies, and economies) that maintain the subjugation or exploitation of Indigenous Peoples, lands, and resources” (Wilson & Yellow Bird, 2005, p. 2).
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Denials Of The Genocide Of Native Americans
There are many other examples of denial by perpetrators who wish to escape negative reactions to their deeds. More troubling are the later denials by people not directly involved in the genocidal events but who appear to have ideological reasons for their denials. (Encyclopedia Of Genocide. Vol. 1 Israel W. Charney)