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EFLtrainer
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| [quote="Gopher....It is not unconscious action to assume superiority and the right to impose your will on others. That it was common is not an excuse. There were certainly people in his time, and within the scope of his knowledge, who believed his actions immoral and unjust. Thou Shalt Not Kill, eh? |
You need to keep in mind that unconsiously-carried and -transmitted diseases did the most killing in the New World, by far.[/quote]
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Did Spanish conquistadores and religious personnel kill Native Americans in their efforts to bring them into Christianity and pay tribute to the king of Spain? Yes, they did. But you need to blame Catholicism and Spanish jurisprudence -- and I'm speaking of the requerimiento and encomienda institutions -- and not just Columbus as a person for this. Indeed, given subsequent events in the colonization of Africa, you would need to spread the blame to all of Western Civilization.
It is too simplistic to single out Columbus for something that was normal in his own time. People who do so, are unfairly using him as a symbol to push their political agendas. |
I didn't. I was responding to *a* - as in one - point, not making a blanket evaluation of 500 years of history.
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