>> Columbus and the Spanish Conquistadors should be recognized as saviors for being instrumental in stopping the holocaust the Aztecs were inflicting on the peoples of Mexico. <<
If they really want to blame someone, Columbus is not the guy to blame, He was just trying to find India. The Spaniards did a lot of good with their missionaries but you got to admit they also did a great share of the looting and plundering as well.
It amuses me that on Columbus day the socialists scum want blame an Italian for the Sins of Spain in the past. Maybe that is their way of rewarding modern day Socialist Spain while jamming a finger at Rome.
The past is past and we have to live int he Future, they need to knowledge that Columbus was a pivotal man in history and stop vilifying him because that sidetracks any honest discussion about history and if we don’t learn from it we are doomed to repeat it.
Speaking as someone who had a concentration in Latin American history, I can tell you that the lefties have nothing but hatred for Cortes, Pizarro, etc., to say nothing of the Catholic Monarchs and their successors, the Hapsburgs.
The Spanish had just completed a 500 year "Reconquista" of the Iberian Peninsula in which they drove out Islam. They had a military and religious culture and tradition that those who had given their souls to a false or evil god were no longer deserving of human compassion. These were the people who encountered unimaginable horrors upon encountering the "friendly natives" and "noble savages" of the New World. The had every reason to believe that they were dealing with Satan.