| Iain Boal on Mon, 15 Jun 2020 09:51:58 +0200 (CEST) |
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On 14 Jun 2020, at 02:40, [email protected] wrote: "... i'm not a historian, but i'm certain that when columbus set foot in the americas, he came with the best intentions, and even the spanish probably didn't arrive with the primary motive to just kill everyone. but they did." If it is the task of the historian to rebut such ignorant certitudes, well then, the historical record clearly shows that the ‘christ-bearing dove’ was intent on plundering the new world. He did confess an ulterior motive - the funding of a crusade for the reconquest of Jerusalem. “But they did [kill everyone]”. That outcome has been a phantasy of white Christian supremacists since the invasion and is a dangerous falsehood, given its implication of terra nullius, which however was in contradiction with the need for a labor force of millions to mine silver in Potosi and harvest the most profitable commodities in history - tobacco, sugar and cotton. Iain # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected] # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: