colonialism
Conspiracy theories tagged "colonialism."
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Native American Genocide — Historical Erasure
The systematic erasure of Native American population collapse (estimated 55-90 million pre-contact) from US history curricula — reframed as 'westward expansion' rather than documented genocide.
1492 · United States · Columbus, US Army, Bureau of Indian Affairs
Mixed
History Written by Winners --- Systematic Suppression
The broadly accepted thesis that official histories systematically exclude indigenous, female, and subaltern perspectives in favor of elite narratives, from Howard Zinn to modern historians.
1800 · Global · Howard Zinn, Walter Benjamin, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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Scramble for Africa — Colonial History Whitewashed
King Leopold II's Congo Free State (1885-1908) killed an estimated 10 million Congolese — largely omitted from Belgian history books until the 1990s and still absent from many European curricula.
1884 · Europe · Leopold II (Belgium), Cecil Rhodes, E.D. Morel