Can you help me understand why it's of poor taste? I am fully claiming that terrible things happened to the First Nations of the Americas... (ie not denying).

Modern native american issues really aren't part of the national conversation or public knowledge. Missing and murdered indigenous women is an ongoing problem that persists today, with little attention. Our country has only in the past decade started coming to terms with the fact that Columbus was a rapist and a slaver - still has the national holiday.

There are many terrible things that our government has done to indigenous people in the past that are still painful (in addition to the things that are still happening), and it feels in poor taste for someone outside their community to say what they should think "if they have any sense".

Ok thanks for sharing. I simply meant that in my mind the distance between CCP and US government is so far that one seems like an obvious relative improvement. Improvement does not imply perfection or even being on the positive half of the number line/continuum.

That was the part I was trying to communicate, and please for give the hyperbolic presentation.