Whenever anything mesoamerican is mentioned people go on a rant about human sacrifice, savages,deserved to be genocided, nothing was lost.. etc
I tought people who care about history would have a better understanding. Many civilizations were wiped out and all their knowledge with them, 500s years later we are just learning they written language, why so much hate?
Why so much rage?
Ryder Phillips
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James Carter
I mean I admire some of their civilizations. I love me some Incan roads, and worshiping corn is pretty fucking great, but it gets to a point where you're really stretching the pros of some of these civilizations, or you REALLY have to dig deep. Also, they did do human sacrifice though, but so did other civilizations in Asia.
Lincoln Gonzalez
Nobody likes savages, whether they can write or not.
If we cried over every civilization that was wiped out and their knowledge lost with them, we would never have time to do anything else.
Easton Gray
Because Veeky Forums is a legit shithole.
Ethan Turner
They sacrified humans—some— bc they thought they were doing it right and got praise of some kind to keep doing it. I've got no problem w/ reading about them and I don't get all emotional and shit I'm just thankful life isn't like that now.
Bc I'd be dead in like -.816 seconds
Jackson Gomez
its white virgins from /pol/ who get triggered at the thought of white people ever doing anything wrong. This is their way to deflect the treatment and fortune of natives
Gavin Kelly
>you're really stretching the pros
See OP? Most of Veeky Forums don't care about understanding history, they just look for yet another way of reassuring their ideology
Logan Nguyen
There are also many who say human sacrifice is good. Lots of different people with different views visit Veeky Forums. I'm not sure what your point is.
Jaxon Martin
Because it's used to justify their conquest, when in reality their conquest requires no justification.
Stronger societies have always bowled over weaker ones. If the Indians had the guns and the boats, they would have come to Europe and massacred them. It's the peaceful Native thing that I hate, especially with the Aztecs, who were a warrior people.
People have this limpwristed idea of fairness, as if the Europeans fought with one another on an even keel all the time. Ask the French how fair the English longbow was in the 100 year war. Ask the Byzantines how fair those Turkish-weld German cannons were in 1453.
As for disease, who cried for Europe when the Mongols used the Plague as a weapon against Europeans who weren't accustomed to it?
What Chinese liberal arts students cried for the 50% of Europeans who died then?
Aiden Brooks
>why so much hate?
They were cannibals who practiced human sacrifice, why is this so hard for you to understand?
People tend to get uncomfortable and agitated when they encounter the argument that killing and eating people isn't a big deal.