Roger’s Rules

By Roger Kimball

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2009-04-09 09:25:20

Sticking only to the role of the Spaniards in America, it is not just this one university that views their role as essentially evil. Both the Guggenheim and the Chicago Natural History Museum have mounted exhibits apologetic to the centrality of human sacrifice to the Aztecs. At the Guggenheim an obsidian knife used in those practices was displayed. The only disparaging note was voiced against the catholicism allegedly imposed upon the natives. Of course no consideration was given to the possibility that those natives (actually the majority under Aztec domination)subject to wholesale slaughter at the hands of the Aztec priests might actually have welcomed a less sanguinary religion. Is it any wonder that the students at Brown have fallen for this line hook line and sinker when eminent institutions peddle it.