Walker James’s Reviews > Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur > Status Update
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Interesting how genocidists learn from prior genocidists. So far we have Columbus bringing a biography of Cato the Censor with him across the Atlantic. Cato the Censor, who called for the destruction of Carthage, justified that destruction by espousing agrarian ideals of masculinity that was a part of Spartan culture. That question of agriculture was the crux of colonial argumentation in Spain (Cortes, Las Casas)
— Jun 18, 2020 03:15PM
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Walker James
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Terrifying how much damage an individual with enough power can enact. The Spanish invasions would have happened regardless of who was there, but we see the severity of brutality depends on who is in charge.... But, there would have been brutality anyway. Even Las Casas owned slaves and made money off that labor - although, he eventually denounced everything, divested entirely and spent the rest of his life arguing.
— Jun 19, 2020 10:56AM
