“...and of course indigenous peoples of this hemisphere were just great....despite their enthusiastic participation in torture and mutilation,incessant tribal warfare, canibalism, burning at the stake, slavery, human sacrifice and euthanasia.”
Too bad no one in academia has the cojones to tell the TRUTH, that the 15,000-year cultural advancement brought about by contact with Europeans turned out rather well compared to the alternative.
“Too bad no one in academia has the cojones to tell the TRUTH, that the 15,000-year cultural advancement brought about by contact with Europeans turned out rather well compared to the alternative.”
.....I expect that the alternative would be something like parts of sub-Sahara Africa....various tribes hacking each other up with machetes....21st century savages commanded by war lords.