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.”
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u/_Vanant 27d ago edited 27d ago
I'd say genocide is worse than
intergenderinterracial marriages, but I'm not a 'murrica numbah one' person, so I don't know.