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- From: dbernard@clesun.Central.Sun.COM (Dave Bernard)
- Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh
- Subject: Re: Columbus vs Indians (was Re: PC lives)
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 12:56:10 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems
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- Actually, at the time Columbus landed, the Caribs, with
- their widespread practice of, literally, eating away
- at the populations they invaded, were making vast inroads
- in the area of the eponymous Sea. Cannibalism, not
- enslavement, was the future of the populations they
- invaded.
-
- Likewise, the Aztecs practiced mass human sacrifice on an
- incredible scale, depleting the neighboring, non-Aztec,
- Indian populations. This is one reason Cortez, with only
- a hundred or two hundred men, was able to topple the Aztec
- empire- support from neighboring tribes, who looked upon
- the brutal Conquistadores as saviors.
-
- The PC POV seems to be that it was OK for other Native
- Americans to slaughter their fellows, but not for Europeans
- to do the same. I say this because I hear no condemnation
- of anyone but Europeans in what was supposedly- in the light
- of modern PC revisionism- a bucolic paradise. If this is
- truly the case, then it's just another form of cheap racism,
- or historic ignorance. The Europeans had no monopoly on
- the badness that went down in Central America.
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