Subject: Re: [permaculture] The people of Tibet need help now - Boing Boing
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:39:58 -0400
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Ben Martin Horst <ben.martinhorst@gmail.com
> wrote:
> I'll grant that the Jesuits were marginally better than most of the other
> religious orders at work in the Americas during colonization, in that they
> weren't generally actively complicit in the slaughter, kidnapping, and
> slavetrading of native peoples that other orders were. But to depict the
> native peoples of Paraguay as unenlightened "primitive cannibals" is
> certainly not good history, but uninformed Western imperial and
> ecclesiastic propaganda. I don't know who your source is on this, but I'd
> suggest some deeper historical and anthropological research.
>
My friend's writing is not perfect and his choice of words in this case
could have been a lot letter. Unenlightened primitive cannibals sends the
wrong message, especially if they were not cannibals at all. Survivalist
forest and plains dwellers would be better.
Re: [permaculture] Anti-catholicism, was Re: The people of Tibet need help now - Boing Boing
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