Cortes should have had is fucking heart ripped out for everyone to see. Even that would be too kind. The blunt edge of a macuahuitl to the back of the head would also do. It’s genuinely unfathomable to me how someone can do what the Spanish did to the Mexica. It’s unbelievable that I am seeing the very same tactics used in modern day Palestine. I’m disturbed by how similar they are. If I ever visit mexico city I’m pissing on his fucking grave. I’d actually give anything to have watched Cortes’ slow death from suffocation.
There is no such thing as Palestinian war crimes. Everything is justifiable. They could live broadcast ritual human sacrifices and I would be completely unbothered. I want America to burn for what it has done.
The common defense is “it was different back then,” but de las casas shows basic human decency is timeless and these assholes knew what they were doing
De las casas my beloved. The only good spaniard
When Columbus did similar things to the Taino, people back in Europe were horrified.
Cortes was acting directly against the orders of the Spanish crown when he went to conquer the Americas. But the people back in Europe at the time were more than happy to tut-tut and finger wag while also reaping the reward from their colonial conquests and not doing anything to actually stop them.
It is insane to me that columbus is a celebrated figure. He was despicable even to people contemporary to him.
Read some of Columbus’ journal entries, straight up psychopathic, the guy was a nutcase.
The Eternal Liberal