I once said some cultures deserve to be destroyed, and was roundly criticized for it.
“I once said some cultures deserve to be destroyed, and was roundly criticized for it.”
Not by me. Anyone who has seriously studied the history of the New World knows that the vast majority of the tribes here were in a state of nearly constant warfare with one another. The fact that they were practicing violence on a scale that shocked the Europeans is telling.
At that time punishments were savage by our standards. Drawing and quartering, keelhauling, etc were fairly common. But what the North and South American tribes were doing was even worse.
Mel Gibson’s movie Apocolypto was pretty darned accurate. To horrify 16th century Spanish things had to have been pretty damned bad.
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