2013-1455 = 558 years
Perhaps its time to move on, ya think?
Whatever issue there may be with European moral justification for taking native American real estate, it is worth noting that the native Americans themselves required absolutely no such justification when taking it from each other. Lot’s of weaker peoples succumbed to the Aztecs murderous rule, long before Columbus was born.
Pizarro and Cortes only managed to overthrow the Inca and Aztecs because they had armies of oppressed vassal states eager to overthrow their masters.
All that gets ignored by the apologists. I mean, who WOULDN’T accept suzerainty of a far-away ruler if it meant the end of human sacrifice and of a far-closer tyrant?
The self-righteousness of some who seek to wriggle from the finger of accusation is amazing, don’t you think?
Still doesn’t change the fact that the policy is ridiculous.