Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "The Gruesome History of the Comanche Tribe w/S.C. Gwynne | Joe Rogan" video.

The neighbors of the Aztecs took one look at the bloodthirsty psychopath Cortez, and said, "We like this guy better, he can help us get rid of the Aztecs."
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@artistaprimus7080 Compared to the people back home in Spain. One gets the idea that he was deliberately encouraged to vacate the peninsula, when the fighting there was done. I agree with you, in Cortez vs. the Aztecs, Cortez was clearly the good guy. And I can't help but think the Aztecs' neighbors looked at Christianity's idea of God sacrificing Himself for humanity (rather than the other way around) as a very nice change of pace.
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@ballbuster4317 The term I used was "bloodthirsty psychopath". You're right about the "bloodthirsty" as being literally inaccurate. "Eager to turn to violence, in a very professional way" then? Looking at the guy's approach to life, I still think that "psychopath" isn't all that far off. And that all in all, the Spanish government was probably happy to send him and his brothers in arms across an ocean to do their thing there, instead of in Spain.
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@ballbuster4317 Good point. I should have been more careful about over-the-top metaphorical language... in this case it really does lead to factual confusion.
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Compare Commanche raiding culture with Christian Enlightenment culture. Christian Enlightenment culture is better. I'm not sorry to say it.
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@henrymudgett2646 In practice there was a lot wrong with the residential schools. There was a lot of bad blood on both sides that made abuse more likely under those sorts of circumstances. Any sort of circumstances, really. Compared to the atrocities that were happening a generation before, though? I wouldn't exactly call the residential school issues "first world problems", but they weren't a case of suspending someone upside-down over a fire until the fluids in their skulls boiled and their heads exploded, or burying them up to their necks in an anthill and cutting their eyelids off. I'm not convinced they had a better plan, or that any other plan would have had better results in practice. That said, crimes are crimes, and the people running the school should have been held accountable for those crimes.
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@henrymudgett2646 The Indians committed those atrocities against the settlers. Listening to research presented in this interview would have taught you some of that, and you can research the rest if you'd like. I agree with you that there was criminal abuse against the kids, who hadn't done anything wrong. I'm only arguing that as bad as the residential schools were, they were better than the status quo (including those atrocities). It's the sort of plan that would look good on paper, so it's not all that surprising that they were implemented, and it's presentist hubris that you'd have come up with a better solution. I'm open to other ideas for future reference, if you'd like to propose some.
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