[geraldmcg]

Courtesy of: Plausible Ponderings from a Middle Aged Conservative Right Wing Red Neck Caucasian American Christian otherwise known as Victor Du Bois

[Christian Engineer Mass]

Yeah, that’s fine, but why is he using “88”?

I may agree or disagree with the point he is making here, I don’t know, I haven’t read it.

But the fact that he is dealing with racial issues with the subtext “88” either means this guy is an complete idiot, or he is using the well known code “88” which some fags use to mean “HH”: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/88_(number)

[thethirddegree]

Courtesy of: Plausible Ponderings from a Middle Aged Conservative Right Wing Red Neck Caucasian American Christian otherwise known as Victor Du Bois

Sounds like someone I would like to be friends with.

[allmendream]

All humans have inherited a legacy of violent blood shed.

Mexicans are a mix of Spanish and Indian. Those with Spanish blood control the military, the economy, the culture. Those Indians not subjugated and interbred with are still oppressed violently by the Spanish.

But it is the Indians who are the problem! Cuz they used to cut peoples hearts out!

Racist blog pimping drivel.

[driftless2]

Leftist academicians have been propagating the lie of the peaceful native whose culture was destroyed by the evil Europeans for decades. The slaughters, well depicted in the movie "Apocalypto', were ignored or glossed over. As were the slaugter of millions by those non-Euros, the Mongols in earlier centuries. Many Indian tribes above Mexico were also warlike. This is not to exonerate the Europeans of any of their evil deeds. But this is why all historical works written by avowed leftists have to be examined closely. You simply can't trust many of them to deliver accurate, unbiased historical messages.

For example, recently I was watching some program on tv about pre-Columbus America that insisted there were over one hundred million Indians living in North and Central America before the Euros. Every factual account of the Indian population I've read puts the number at between three to ten million before Columbus.

[La Lydia]

Has he ever looked at what the Greeks, Romans, Angles, Saxons, Danes, Goths, Visigoths, Franks, Vandals, Illyrians, Thracians, Dacians, Picts, Lusitani, Iberians Celts, etc. were doing at several points in history in terms of war, bloodshed and human sacrifice?

[SampleMan]

How did a hundred Conquistadors take out the Aztec Empire? Conveniently left out of most all accounts are the ~40,000 non-Aztec natives who rallied around the Spaniards to defeat their brutal overlords.

The history of the stone age Americas is one of constant warfare, misogyny, slavery, and brutality.

[geraldmcg]

The general point of this article is to laugh at the anthropologists for how they accused the Spanish of corrupting a (violent unruly) society by introducing the Christian faith. As a Christian I know it is foolish to try and enforce a religion by the sword. Christianity must be chosen not coerced. Also, I am saying that the violent culture of the Mayan people was passed on to future generations and continues today in the illegal drug trade.

[flowerplough]

Have South American natives inherited a legacy of violent bloodshed?

Yes. Haven’t we all?

And the Southies still live the legacy, don’t they? Simon Bolivar’s epitaph reads, “Whomsoever has worked for a revolution has plowed the sea.”

[JimSEA]

If they Mayans, pre Christianity, murdered for religion, are forever a subhuman race, what does this writer say about the Romans who murdered for entertainment. This article is racist filth.

[geraldmcg]

This article does not imply that the Mayans have the corner on violent history. Nor does it claim that any other ethnic group is void of a violence in some part of its history. It is amazing how responders to this post bring their own presuppositions of racism to this issue. The history of the world is long enough that every people group has more than one skeleton in its closet. The intent of the article was to reveal the ignorance of the anthropologists and the assumptions they made about the Mayan culture.

[vkladchik]

You’ve got your facts wrong. Originally, Eric Thompson thought Maya civilization was some kind of war-free idyll, but then epigraphers like Yuri Knorosov and David Stuart (the youngest recipient of the Macarthur Genius grant btw) figured out the writing, and we learned that the Maya were as warlike as any other civilization (surprise, surprise).

When the Spaniards arrived, they brought massacre and enslavement. Christianity was an afterthought. (Literally: the priests only came after the original conquistadors had been there a few decades.)

Your post implies that the Maya (and their descendants) are somehow more violent than other people, but that’s not supported by any evidence. In fact, there’s no evidence that any civilization has been more peaceful or more bellicose than any other.