Why are people cool with Aztec human sacrifice and not Spanish colonialism?

[Al B. Sure!]

Which is celebrated in the United States, where the Aztecs famously performed zero human sacrifices.

Columbus did nothing in the US either...

[Al B. Sure!]

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If you actually thought that anyone centers their entire moral conception of the world around the idea that the West is evil, you would belong in a mental institution.

You need to meet people I know.

Afrocentrics will blow your whitebread mind.

[loinburger]

Columbus did nothing in the US either...

Are you arguing that Americans' celebration of Columbus Day proves that the Americans celebrating Counter-Columbus Day are actually celebrating Aztec human sacrifice? Because if not then I don't know what point you're trying to make by saying that Columbus never set foot in the future United States.

[Ben Kenobi]

If you actually thought that anyone centers their entire moral conception of the world around the idea that the West is evil, you would belong in a mental institution.

Oh, I'm sure you have the much more refined positon that Americans alone are evil.

[Al B. Sure!]

Are you arguing that Americans' celebration of Columbus Day proves that the Americans celebrating Counter-Columbus Day are actually celebrating Aztec human sacrifice? Because if not then I don't know what point you're trying to make by saying that Columbus never set foot in the future United States.

Are you arguing that Americans' celebration of Columbus Day proves they are actually celebrating genocide and slavery?

[giblets]

Are you arguing that Americans' celebration of Columbus Day proves they are actually celebrating genocide and slavery?

Are you suggesting that people who celebrate Hitler's birthday are actually celebrating the Holocaust?

[loinburger]

Are you arguing that Americans' celebration of Columbus Day proves they are actually celebrating genocide and slavery?

This is a bizarrely retarded question, seeing as how I've never used the words "genocide" or "slavery" in this thread.

[Al B. Sure!]

This is a bizarrely retarded question, seeing as how I've never used the words "genocide" or "slavery" in this thread.

EVERYONE ELSE DOES!

Read the OP

[DinoDoc]

It should have been Amerigo Vespucci day anyway.

[loinburger]

EVERYONE ELSE DOES!

Read the OP

The OP doesn't use the words "genocide" or "slavery" either. You're ****ed in the head.

[Al B. Sure!]

Typical stuff:

I'm going to celebrate Columbus day by walking into someone's home, cracking a beer, and telling them they no longer live there.

You should also torture, enslave, and then kill them, their family, and their neighbors. If you're gonna go all Columbus on their ass, go for the gold

[Al B. Sure!]

Are you suggesting that people who celebrate Hitler's birthday are actually celebrating the Holocaust?

Who the hell celebrates Hitler's birthday? Yes, Nazis that celebrate it probably are celebrating Hitler's work, as well, and that includes the Holocaust, though they probably also deny it.

[MRT144]

You're saying Mexican-Americans don't celebrate the Aztecs?

They certainly don't celebrate the ritual sacrifice aspects, more the warrior spirit. Colonialism has no redeeming characteristics except culinary.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Typical stuff:

So... you are getting all offended by people cracking jokes about Columbus?

[Al B. Sure!]

So... you are getting all offended by people cracking jokes about Columbus?

Last year, someone had a lengthy post railing against the white man. I pointed out that oppressors come in all colors and that the Aztec were brutal, even moreso than the Inquisition and conquering Spaniards. The response to me was as if I praised Hitler.

This time, I just said "To be fair, I'm just glad the Aztec aren't doing that whole human sacrifice thing anymore" and it's like I said 'Hitler had some good ideas on race'.