- 08 Aug 2019 05:03
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LOL, sure.
Sure, sure, so the Nigerian-descent people all suffer colonialism whether they are middle class children who never went to Nigeria in the USA or England, or whether they are the Muslim minority in norhtern Nigeria being repressed actively by the Nigerian government, and that is what is relevant to their lives: the effects of colonialism.
Why?
How?
This is certainly a lazy argument. But I do say: a very hopeful one. You really believe that everything can be so interconnected so brilliantly.
And there's no need to explain, right?
Why post a statement if you are unwilling to unpack it? You're a very prolific poster who spends probably half a dozen or more hours a week on PoFo. Surely, you have some time to develop an argument without being prodded. Or is that part of the game?
[1] Human sacrifice in Aztec culture (wiki)
August 8th, 2019
Pants-of-dog wrote:Let us start with your evidence for the number of Aztec sacrifices.
LOL, sure.
Some post-conquest sources report that at the re-consecration of Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan in 1487, the Aztecs sacrificed about 80,400 prisoners over the course of four days. This number is considered by Ross Hassig, author of Aztec Warfare, to be an exaggeration. Hassig states "between 10,000 and 80,400 persons" were sacrificed in the ceremony.[11] The higher estimate would average 15 sacrifices per minute during the four-day consecration. Four tables were arranged at the top so that the victims could be jettisoned down the sides of the temple.[18] Nonetheless, according to Codex Telleriano-Remensis, old Aztecs who talked with the missionaries told about a much lower figure for the reconsecration of the temple, approximately 4,000 victims in total.
Michael Harner, in his 1977 article The Enigma of Aztec Sacrifice, cited an estimate by Borah of the number of persons sacrificed in central Mexico in the 15th century as high as 250,000 per year which may have been one percent of the population.[19] Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxochitl, a Mexica descendant and the author of Codex Ixtlilxochitl, estimated that one in five children of the Mexica subjects was killed annually. Victor Davis Hanson argues that a claim by Don Carlos Zumárraga of 20,000 per annum is "more plausible".[20] Other scholars believe that, since the Aztecs often tried to intimidate their enemies, it is more likely that they could have inflated the number as a propaganda tool.[21] The same can be said for Bernal Díaz's inflated calculations when, in a state of visual shock, he grossly miscalculated the number of skulls at one of the seven Tenochtitlan tzompantlis. The counter argument is that both the Aztecs and Diaz were very precise in the recording of the many other details of Aztec life, and inflation or propaganda would be unlikely. According to the Florentine Codex, fifty years before the conquest the Aztecs burnt the skulls of the former tzompantli. Archeologist Eduardo Matos Moctezuma has unearthed and studied some tzompantlis.[22] In 2003, archaeologist Elizabeth Graham noted that the largest number of skulls yet found at a single tzompantli was only about a dozen.[9]
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Yes, I am saying that SOME people in E gland have never suffered the negative impacts of colonialism. That does not mean that your hypothetical Nigerian immigrant has not.
Sure, sure, so the Nigerian-descent people all suffer colonialism whether they are middle class children who never went to Nigeria in the USA or England, or whether they are the Muslim minority in norhtern Nigeria being repressed actively by the Nigerian government, and that is what is relevant to their lives: the effects of colonialism.
Why?
How?
This is certainly a lazy argument. But I do say: a very hopeful one. You really believe that everything can be so interconnected so brilliantly.
If you think I said that, you have deeply misunderstood.
And there's no need to explain, right?
Why post a statement if you are unwilling to unpack it? You're a very prolific poster who spends probably half a dozen or more hours a week on PoFo. Surely, you have some time to develop an argument without being prodded. Or is that part of the game?
[1] Human sacrifice in Aztec culture (wiki)
August 8th, 2019