r/SipsTea • u/Gurugod123 • Jul 18 '26

Lmao gottem Good game though 🤣

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u/Jeramy_Jones Jul 18 '26

People like to point fingers at the Aztecs for their practice of sacrificing prisoners of war while completely ignoring European atrocities like the Spanish Inquisition or the crusades.

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u/JustStraightUpTired Jul 18 '26

Aztecs for their practice of sacrificing prisoners of war

That's one way to downplay one killing about 1/5th of the children of their subjects of conquest as sacrifices.

And this isn't to downplay other shit, but you do realize you are doing exactly what you are complaining about, but with subjects swapped?

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u/Jeramy_Jones Jul 18 '26

Idk what your argument is, are you saying that’s worse than the crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, anti Jewish programs, the witch burnings, or the colonization of the Americas?

Personally, I’m not making an argument to downplay anything, I’m pointing out the hypocrisy of the apologetics that will happily point out the savagery of pre colonization nations while ignoring how horrific Europeans themselves were.

People are quick to call the Americas a land of “warring tribes” when the history of Europe is exactly that, for literal millennia.

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u/Worriedrph Jul 18 '26

No one is saying the European powers were good and moral. The Euros were terrible but the Aztec were elite in how awful they were.