Anonymous
Post 10/08/2024 19:53     Subject: Spain must apologize for colonizing Mexico
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:There has never been a formal, official, apology.

Spain: the time has come. Do the right thing. Apologize.


AOC, please get off DCUM. Don't you have better things to do with your time?

Isn't AOC Puerto Rican not Mexican?
Anonymous
Post 10/08/2024 19:32     Subject: Re:Spain must apologize for colonizing Mexico
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This was written by a Trump voter posing as a Democrat with the intention of making readers think "Wow, wokeness has gone too far. I must vote Trump to hold back the tide of wokeness."

People, don't fall for the troll. Please.


BS. We see thread after thread about utterly absurd non-issues that apparently LWNJs find important. It’s cute that you’re trying to blame that idiocy on “Trump voters.” Own the nutcases in your own party.


I actually agree with the PP. People come to DCUM and put crap out there that I have never, ever heard from even the most "woke" of liberals that I know.

LOTS of trolling going on here. Y'all are shameful.
Anonymous
Post 10/08/2024 19:21     Subject: Spain must apologize for colonizing Mexico
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Fascinating you think this is important or necessary.


To be honest, there's not a country in the world that doesn't need to apologize for overcoming its perceived enemies.



Maybe the UN should just pass a mega-apology resolution apologising to everyone’s ancestors on behalf of everyone’s ancestors for all the bad stuff done to and by everyone’s ancestors.

Anonymous
Post 10/08/2024 19:16     Subject: Spain must apologize for colonizing Mexico
Anonymous wrote:Fascinating you think this is important or necessary.


To be honest, there's not a country in the world that doesn't need to apologize for overcoming its perceived enemies.
Anonymous
Post 10/08/2024 19:03     Subject: Spain must apologize for colonizing Mexico
Can everyone please remember this when someone makes the argument that Americans owe Mexico a pound of flesh and should therefore keep our borders open and aide flowing to Mexico?
Anonymous
Post 10/08/2024 18:52     Subject: Spain must apologize for colonizing Mexico
When the Moops apologize for colonizing Spain.
Anonymous
Post 10/08/2024 18:47     Subject: Spain must apologize for colonizing Mexico
Anonymous wrote:There has never been a formal, official, apology.

Spain: the time has come. Do the right thing. Apologize.


AOC, please get off DCUM. Don't you have better things to do with your time?
Anonymous
Post 10/08/2024 17:27     Subject: Re:Spain must apologize for colonizing Mexico
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This was written by a Trump voter posing as a Democrat with the intention of making readers think "Wow, wokeness has gone too far. I must vote Trump to hold back the tide of wokeness."

People, don't fall for the troll. Please.


It's a quote from the new President of Mexico.


I think it refers to this

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-09-25/why-mexico-does-not-want-the-king-of-spain-at-claudia-sheinbaums-presidential-inauguration#:~:text=Mexico's%20president-elect%20says%20Spain's%20king%20is%20not%20invited
Anonymous
Post 10/08/2024 17:27     Subject: Spain must apologize for colonizing Mexico
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:There has never been a formal, official, apology.

Spain: the time has come. Do the right thing. Apologize.


Troll

Lame


The President of Mexico said this like two days ago. It’s a thing.

Way to keep up with world events, idiot
Anonymous
Post 10/08/2024 17:20     Subject: Spain must apologize for colonizing Mexico
Portugal would be elated

There was the equivalent of the moon race going on amongst four advanced civilizations to find the route to the far east, spices and gold.

But hey, let’s play DCUM troll.
Anonymous
Post 10/08/2024 17:17     Subject: Spain must apologize for colonizing Mexico
Anonymous wrote:There has never been a formal, official, apology.

Spain: the time has come. Do the right thing. Apologize.


Troll

Lame
Anonymous
Post 10/08/2024 16:57     Subject: Re:Spain must apologize for colonizing Mexico
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This was written by a Trump voter posing as a Democrat with the intention of making readers think "Wow, wokeness has gone too far. I must vote Trump to hold back the tide of wokeness."

People, don't fall for the troll. Please.


BS. We see thread after thread about utterly absurd non-issues that apparently LWNJs find important. It’s cute that you’re trying to blame that idiocy on “Trump voters.” Own the nutcases in your own party.


There are no LWNJ who care about Spain and Mexico. Not one!
Anonymous
Post 10/08/2024 16:52     Subject: Spain must apologize for colonizing Mexico
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:There has never been a formal, official, apology.

Spain: the time has come. Do the right thing. Apologize.


I actually agree with you OP though no idea if you are genuine or just stirring the pot. Although an apology would be mostly symbolic, it could be a way to open up better communications and respect for ingenious people’s through central and South America .

The devastation done to indigenous peoples of Central and South America during Spanish colonization is on the scale of the Holocaust. People who belong to the once proud cultures of Aztecs/ Maya and Incas (among others) continue to face great discrimination and hardships even today.

“It is estimated that during the initial Spanish conquest of the Americas up to eight million indigenous people died, primarily through the spread of Afro-Eurasian diseases, in a series of events that have been described as the first large-scale act of genocide of the modern era.”.

We could learn a lot from indigenous peoples - such as treating nature with more respect.


As someone whose family is Native, I agree with much of the above.

However, also worth pointing out that the "Noble Savage" myth is also absurd.

Many indigenous groups engaged in regular conflict with each other, including wars of aggression and annihilation. Likely one of the causes of Mayan collapse, to cite just one example.
Anonymous
Post 10/08/2024 16:33     Subject: Re:Spain must apologize for colonizing Mexico
Aren't the people who run Mexico primarily of Spanish ancestry? Is Spain supposed to apologize to those people?
Anonymous
Post 10/08/2024 16:28     Subject: Spain must apologize for colonizing Mexico
Visigoths must apologize for colonizing Spain.