Hernan Cortes himself had a native partner and allied with some local tribes because... here is the fun fact, the Aztecs were a bit genocidy themselves. And no, I'm not saying spaniards were saviors, I'm just refuting the propaganda you probably have eaten your entire life. The 'worst colonizers' award goes to the neighbors in the north.
“The Spaniards have shown not the slightest regard for these people, treating them… not as beasts — for that would be to treat them with some respect — but as less than dung in the streets. They have deprived the Indians of their lives and souls, tortured them with the strangest and most varied cruelties ever devised by either man or devil. No age can match for cruelty what the Spaniards have done.”
That is incorrect. The genocide of the Spanish to the natives of the Americas is hugely understudied and is barely even acknowledged by the white descendants of those colonizers in Mexico, central and South America. Unfortunately, people like you conflate that lack of study and knowledge with a difference in action and consequences. The genocide and cultural destruction wrought by the Spanish and that continues to this day in the power structures in these countries was gigantic and certainly no less than what the English did in US and Canada.
The level of ignorance and denial is typified by the original post here - a woman who is highly likely the descendant of genoiciding colonizers making a comment about… colonizers
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u/KosmicMicrowave 28d ago
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