1) She laughably takes issue with this assertion from Reuters:
Millions of tribal Indians are believed to have died as a result of European colonization backed by the Church, through slaughter, disease or enslavement.
Sorry, Pattycakes, it's true: "Before the 16th century, there may have been as many as 90 million to 112 million people living in the Americas.... Then, disaster. According to some estimates, as much as 95 percent of the Indians may have died almost immediately on contact with various European diseases, particularly smallpox."
2) And she delightfully punctures her own pretension by making a mistake that most third-graders would not:
Evolution is adaptation to change and change is constant. And it is a process that goes on at every level of human existence--from genes to culture. Those "indiginous cultures" which they see as somehow superior to Western culture and are eager to add to their preferred victim group list, are subject to it and must be capable of adapting to change--or they will die out just as surely as the platypus and other extinct species.
Behold! The apparently-extinct platypus, frolicking in its indigenous habitat, oblivious to Dr. Sanity's wish of monotreme specicide:
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