The Old Lie, Repeated

How America’s Vice President Just Reopened the Genocide Playbook

When a leader claims genocide was “civilization”… he is not talking about the past.

Recently, Vice President JD Vance stood on a stage and said this:

“Settlers found widespread child sacrifice in the New World.
Christian civilization ended the practice.”

This isn’t a historical slip.
It’s a strategic narrative, carefully chosen.

Why?
Because if you can convince people that Indigenous nations were monstrous —
then the violence done to them becomes righteous, even humanitarian.

This is not about the 1400s.
It’s about what a U.S. administration believes it has the moral right to do now.

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🚨 This is genocide staging — in public

Dr. Gregory Stanton’s Ten Stages of Genocide exist to identify danger early.
Vance just checked off four of them in one breath.

Stage 3 — Dehumanization
Cast Indigenous peoples as child-killers, inherently depraved.

Stage 4 — Organization
Portray “Christian civilization” as the rescuing superior race/culture.

Stage 5 — Polarization
Draw a moral line:
we save children — they destroyed them.

Stage 6 — Preparation
Implies that domination was (and remains) necessary “for their own good.”

This is not education.
This is normalizing the ideology that made genocide possible.

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🧩 The same lie lives in QAnon

QAnon didn’t invent this tactic.
It simply modernized it.

Their core story is identical:

• The enemy hides among us

• They harm children

• Only the movement can save them

• Any brutality is justified as rescue

It’s not politics — it’s a holy war narrative.

Once your opponents are framed as child killers,
democracy becomes immoral.
Violence becomes duty.

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🧩 And Russia is using it to justify atrocities in Ukraine

Russia invaded Ukraine not with logic — but with lies:

• Ukraine is a nest of “child abusers”

• Russia must rescue the children

• Deportations are framed as protection

• Cultural erasure is branded as civilization

The UN has already flagged genocidal intent in those deportations.

These narratives do not justify war.
They justify removing a people from history.

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🔗 The connective thread

• Colonizers.

• QAnon.

• The Kremlin.

Different eras.
Same story structure:

Invent a child-killing enemy →
Create moral panic →
Authorize cruelty in the name of care.

When a sitting Vice President adopts that narrative —
it moves from meme to state ideology.

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❗This is the point where history usually looks away

Vance isn’t talking about Indigenous history by accident.
He is rewriting it with praise for the perpetrators.
He is reframing genocide as salvation.

We didn’t steal, we saved.
We didn’t murder, we rescued.
We didn’t destroy, we civilized.

That is the moral license that allows:

• more raids

• more camps

• more disappearances

• more deaths at sea

• more families torn apart “for safety”

Not mistakes — policy directions.

When the executive branch sanctifies domination,
the targets are already chosen.

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✋ Call this what it is

Not ignorance.
Not clumsy history.
Not a misfired talking point.

It is the revival of the foundational American justification for genocide —
now pointed at the future.

We are being told a story:

Some cultures are less human.
Some families are less worthy.
Some people must be saved from themselves — by force.

And like every story of this kind,
it ends in silence where other people’s homes used to be.

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If you care about truth, about Indigenous sovereignty, about Ukrainian survival,
about the right of children to stay with their families —
name this lie when you hear it.
Speak plainly.
Share widely.
Don’t let this narrative take deeper root.