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Fuck the Aztecs, of course - but the Aztecs were not ALL OF THE SPANISH-CONQUERED AMERICAS
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As bad as the Aztecs were… I’m not sure the Spanish were better
While we Spaniards stole a lot of gold and brought diseases (unintentionally), I think we can agree that preventing religious child sacrifices is a positive thing.
Yeah. if that's all that happened, you might have a point.
Ask yourself how they got the gold and how many children were enslaved for labor after the gold ran out, and how many were killed as 'object lessons' when people tried to resist. Just take a look at the Taino Genocide for an example of what I'm talking about. Spanish conquistadors were known to bash still-nursing infants to kill them. They fed natives to dogs. Burning a live and hanging weren't brutal enough, so they sometimes did both. At the same time.
sure diseases wiped out most natives. and they may not have known about it. but I wouldn't be shocked to find when they found out, they decided to make use of it. (I mean, we did.)
This is not about lowering the relevance of the brutalities committed by the colonizers, I was responding to a meme, I did not intend to enter into a deep debate on the subject, in which I am not an expert either.
In any case, one thing is clear to me, the subject of diseases was used by the British in North America, the Spaniards (more than two centuries before) not only did not know about the damage they caused with this, but they did not find out until long after they spread, because they did so faster than the conquerors themselves.**