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The genocide of Tenochtitlan is actually one of the most horrifying things I have ever read (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml to c/chat@hexbear.net

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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.

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[–] miz@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

where were you reading about it

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The Conquest of Mexico by William H. Prescott and The Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz. Can't recommend enough

[–] miz@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I've read that second one but it was a decade ago when I was even more liberal. I should re-read it

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It definitely needs to be read with an understanding of Bernal Diaz as a person. He romanticizes the conquest to an extreme degree at times and almost certainly left out details that would make them look bad. Really recommend Prescott's book, he uses the account of Bernal Diaz as a source and puts it in context well.