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- Feb 2, 2024
While I can't ignore the fact that colonization fucked up the lives of countless natives of multiple continents due to a mix of prejudice, religion, trickery and cruelty, it definitely feels like the BIPOC garbage is supposed to make us think that indigenous people were not only always oppressed but would live in greater harmony with each other than the colonizer white people did, to the point where acts like wars between tribes, ritual sacrifices, and cannibalism seem to be seen as taboo subjects to bring up because you're stereotyping them as evil people who therefore don't need help.
I don't really understand where this view comes from. Considering what we do know of their religions, how is it 'stereotyping' to believe that the Aztecs believed in sacrificing people for the sake of their beliefs, or that there were tribes who believed that eating warriors they captured would give them power? And it's not like they didn't know how to defend themselves before the Europeans arrived if they were fierce warriors, either.
I don't really understand where this view comes from. Considering what we do know of their religions, how is it 'stereotyping' to believe that the Aztecs believed in sacrificing people for the sake of their beliefs, or that there were tribes who believed that eating warriors they captured would give them power? And it's not like they didn't know how to defend themselves before the Europeans arrived if they were fierce warriors, either.