"Dreamy invocation of conciliatory measures was popular among the British colonists. "Conciliation" would become the standard euphemism covering a multitude of oppressions. What it meant was, We take your land, we give you out religion and our language and our diseases, and then you and your culture melt away like snow on a griddle."
- David Quammen in Song of the Dodo
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