>Her people are illiterate and polygamous
I'm no expert on Algonquian peoples so I can't tell if polygamy was allowed, but we know from the Old Testament that the Hebrews practiced polygamy, and a number of more unseemly marital practices. Yet it seems to me that justifying a culture's extinction based on the practice of polygamy is a heinous thing to do, and has historically resulted in real savagery by those who use this excuse.
>and live in longhouses or wigwams with timber logs for walls, or woven mats, and dirt floors.
First, it seems our subject is already admitting he does not know what he is talking about. Second, he is unable to distinguish the plains tribes and their tents from forest tribes living in longhouses. So he probably isn't a reliable authority of native Americans, and we should probably dismiss what he has to say about them.
>But, of course, we can give credit to John Smith for being very English about the matter, and having the attitude of Victorian social reformers.
John Smith lived during the Elizabethan era, not the Victorian. Despite being named for two well known English queens, they're not even close to each other. Anyone with a basic understanding of English history would know this, and why Smith absolutely did not share their attitudes or any interest in social reforms from the future.
>But none of this can be allowed to intrude into the stupid simplicity of the politically correct propaganda, which requires bullies to be flat and cardboard caricatures of evil, and requires victims to be flat and cardboard caricatures of goodness.
On the contrary, I think the motivations of the English settlers are very common and human. Just simple greed for money. They may not have been twirling their moustaches, bragging about how evil they were. But they did see there was profit to be made in starting a tobacco plantation and trading the product back to Europe. Which necessitated land and a cheap labour force. Land could be acquired from the natives, who the settlers deluded themselves into thinking "weren't using it right” because it wasn't turning a profit for Englishmen. And cheap labour could be bought on the slave market, using non-christians from west Africa because they had no legal rights to freedom under English law.
I would not call that a flat, cardboard caricature of evil. A caricature of evil, maybe. But there is actual method to the madness, for reasons that are all to common for people who have rationalized themselves into committing atrocities. The self-deception that you're not actually a bad person for doing the things you do. And that is an all too common, human failing up to today.