• Ricky Rigatoni
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    19 hours ago

    I feel like there was a time period in the last decade where after people realized how much history we were taught was false they gravely overcorrected and just assumed everything was a lie.

    Or it was all part of some agenda I don’t have the brainpower to comprehend.

    • @PugJesusOPM
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      19 hours ago

      In the Anglosphere, conquistadors being bad has been the ‘standard’ take in part, yes, because of anti-Spanish propaganda. But by happy accident, the England/Spain rivalry resulted in a take that was accidentally correct - the conquistadors were horrific. After years of attempted whitewashing by elites in former Spanish holdings, a much more indigenous-positive view has taken roots in the once-colonized countries, despite backlash from conservatives within some of those countries who want to preserve the “Brave Spanish hidalgo civilizing and Christianizing the terrible natives” myth.