To: driftless2
Why can't these academia nuts do the same?Bait and switch sometimes works. On a couple of occasions when the subject has come up, I've "prepared the battlefield" by taking off on the Spaniards. I start with the observation that 16th century Europe was a brutal place but that even there Spanish cruelty was a byword. I toss in a glancing reference to the Inquisition. A multiculti type will be nodding fiercely at this implicit defense of the Indians.
Then I spring the trap by noting that what has to be understood is that, bad as the Spanish were by our standards, the Indians of Mexico horrified even them. The carnage shocked even the scourge of Europe. Game, set, match.
33 posted on
12/06/2006 3:21:05 AM PST by
sphinx
To: sphinx
Ooooo, I like that. Taking notes.
37 posted on
12/06/2006 4:03:40 AM PST by
FreedomPoster
(Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
To: sphinx
bad as the Spanish were by our standards, the Indians of Mexico horrified even them. The carnage shocked even the scourge of Europe. Game, set, match. What kind of reaction do you get?
45 posted on
12/06/2006 4:44:05 AM PST by
Aquinasfan
(When you find "Sola Scriptura" in the Bible, let me know)
To: sphinx
Then I spring the trap by noting that what has to be understood is that, bad as the Spanish were by our standards, the Indians of Mexico horrified even them. The carnage shocked even the scourge of Europe. Game, set, match.
How do you multiculti friends respond? Do they get angry at being flummoxed by you?
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