Re:Inca Child Sacrifice Victims Were Drugged
by chestertn on Saturday October 22, 2022 @04:22PM
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There was no genocide of native civilizations.
Its unfortunate that poor historical revisionism is employed in the USA for political purposes and that this becomes the baseline of historical knowledge of the average citizen.
It is one thing to analyze the colonization process outside an Eurocentric perspective (e.g., Conrad's critique of British colonialism in Heart of Darkness). Another is to create a caricature of barbarian Conquerors raping and murdering an entire civilization (or, as the protestant press of the day used to print, eating babies alive).
Genocide is "the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group". Compare this with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Laws
Its unfortunate that poor historical revisionism is employed in the USA for political purposes and that this becomes the baseline of historical knowledge of the average citizen.
It is one thing to analyze the colonization process outside an Eurocentric perspective (e.g., Conrad's critique of British colonialism in Heart of Darkness). Another is to create a caricature of barbarian Conquerors raping and murdering an entire civilization (or, as the protestant press of the day used to print, eating babies alive).
Genocide is "the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group". Compare this with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Laws