>> The first known crime in what is now New York City occurred in the 1620s, when the Lenape Indians scammed their new Dutch friends by selling them Manahattan island twice. I'm not one to scream about micro-aggressions, but look at that opening sentence. It implies that no "crime" was even possible before the arrival of Europeans, that prior to contact native populations did not commit crimes. Either the native were…
Wow, people on HN will go to the wall defending an unfunny joke, if only because a little bit of awareness annoys them much more... it's somehow satisfying that this is the only thread on this page.