Comments by "Stephen Jenkins" (@stephenjenkins7971) on "Bartolomé de las Casas | Changing Your Mind | European History | Extra History" video.

  1.  @jorgenoname6062  This is a very whitewashing of history here. The fact of the matter is that the only "very large" indigenous populations in Latin America are either mixed-race from the oppression of the Encomienda or holdouts from constant state oppression. The Plains Natives did not have sprawling civilizations and were instead numbering in the thousands; they were at a size that were already insignificant to 1500's or modern Native American populations in places like Mexico. If the Spanish got control over the region in North America, their policies would have exterminated them outright. Disease played its role, but records show that places like Hispaniola lost akin to 80% of their entire Native population as much to war and oppression as disease. By every definition of the word, the Spanish enacted one of the worst genocides in human history. The Plains Natives were comparatively lucky in that the US and Canada only went so far as cultural genocide and ethnic cleansing rather than massive enslavement, with the only exception being in California...where the Spanish system still reigned supreme to begin with. Unlike down south, the Plains Natives did not have the numbers to survive such mass enslavement policies.
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  2.  @LuisMartinez-ey8zx  In "theory" all Americans of different colors were equal post the end of the US Civil War. Something being stated by the law doesn't at all absolve the state from enforcing that law; the Spanish are still guilty for profiting off of a near-slave society in the Americas, dude.
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  3. US and Canada has massacres, but they paled to what occurred in Latin America by far, to be blunt Edit: Because Bartoleme de las Casas ultimately failed and the system continued on until African slaves started to replace Natives; but their suppression continued on even under the Latin American nations
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  4.  @ElBandito  True, but he also claimed that places like Cuba with its government oppression was also a good system; so just because you argue against the grain doesn't mean that you're right.
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  5.  @BardovBacchus  Too many people want to argue what? That people should be enslaved? Because I haven't heard of that.
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