No, I didn't dismiss it. The meme is about the battle for tenochtitlan, not about everything the Spanish did in Latin America.
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You said “heroic”. This narrative that somehow spaniards were heroes because they’re way of killing didn’t involve ripping hearts out is trite and historically false. Laughable that they look down on “savages” yet burned people alive for their beliefs.
Don’t get me wrong I love spanish history though. I’ve to spain three times and my last name is Hernandez. Orellana for example was a true savage in the best way possible. A man who looked fate in the eye and said fuck you.
I said that for this specific battle mostly relatively to the other shit they did. I otherwise agree that they sucked.
Fair enough. The spaniards and aztecs both did evil shit is my point and too many narratives misleadingly give the spanish the moral high ground.
The false thing is your narrative. You are repeating the story told by the enemies of Spain; mainly England and France. What the Spaniards did was historic: discovery of a new continent, they empirically demonstrated that the earth is spherical, they connected the old world with the new world. Hence, the motto "Plus Ultra" (and beyond) of Spain.
What was false about what I said?
You do not mention the laws that protected the indigenous people nor the provisions of mestizaje established by Queen Isabel I of Castile. (Laws of the Indies and Laws of Burgos). Instead, you claim that Spain acted wrongly, demonstrating that you are influenced and biased by Anglo-Saxon propaganda that has shaped your perception through its audiovisual productions (Hollywood).
On the Spanish Inquisition: One of the worst things about Spain is bureaucracy, but thanks to it, we can review the data of the Spanish Inquisition.
The truth : Between 1540 and 1700, approximately 1,600 to 1,700 people were sentenced to death out of a total of 45,000 processed, which represents around 3%.
The negative image of the Spanish Inquisition (omitting and covering up the events of other European inquisitions) was spread by Romanticism from the second half of the 18th century.
Source: https://www.boe.es/biblioteca_juridica/anuarios_derecho/abrir_pdf.php?id=ANU-I-2025-10055900570
And I add: You only need to observe the empirical evidence on the quantity of native Americans and mestizos in the Hispanic territories in comparison with the Anglo-Saxons; it is not necessary to resort to statistics; it is enough to use observation and analyze phenotypes.
Laws of Burgos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_Burgos
Laws of the Indies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_the_Indies
New Laws: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Laws
Latin America? Tell me, tell me when the Roman Empire arrived in America? The great feat of the discovery of a new world (literally) was that of the Spanish Empire, that's why Spanish is spoken in America and they pray to a Christian God (among many other things). It is called Hispanic America, and they are Hispanic speakers.