‘It’s not that they were harsh ’
Making the rounds this past year were comments by a Mexican scientist regarding the revelation of a Mayan temple at which child sacrifices were performed.
As reported by CBS News, the temple, found in Tikal National Park, showed “the remnants of three babies not older than 4 years, ” according to the professor who led the finding staff.
The brutality of how such concessions were performed, however, is never brought up. Instead, we merely read how Tikal was “a cosmopolitan center, ” a “center of cultural convergence, ” and how the altar had a “figure representing the Storm Goddess. ”
CBS even managed to get a reply from an geologist not affiliated with the results at Tikal. How come? Perhaps because María Belén Méndez of the National Autonomous University of Mexico said the baby concessions were merely “a process. ”
“It’s not that [its practitioners ] were violent, ” Belén Méndez said, just that sacrifices were “their way of connecting with the celestial bodies. ”
As Reason Senior Editor ( and former College Fix contributor ) Robby Soave put it, “mostly peaceful child sacrifice”?
Then, think CBS News finding some deep-woods person in, state, Middle-Of-Nowhere Arkansas. He’s holding many individuals prisoner on his house and forcing them to work for him and try to his land:
Professor Antoinette Whitebread told CBS News it ’s not that this gentleman was practicing slavery. It was just his way of connecting with the Bible. After all, in Leviticus and Joshua we read “Moses tells the Israelites on the way to the Promised Land how they should get and stay prisoners, ” and that “some of you may often be slaves. ”
In the the New Testament, Romans notes that Paul said “Slaves, follow your mortal rulers with fear and trembling. ”
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We have to picture this as of course CBS had never run for a segment — because it ’s crazy. The West much previously rejected such arguments ( if they ever really existed in the first place ), and there’s no way CBS or other media outlets would treat this fictional without referencing the natural vileness.
Oppression studies dictates that Western values, culture, and even science aren’t any better than others’, and since they’ve been the ( positive ) focus for so long, the focus must now shift elsewhere— but only with favorable narratives.
New Zealand, for instance, tells us “indigenous way of knowing ” are on line with current Western scientific methods. The University of Massachusetts Amherst got a$ 30 million federal grant in 2023 to “braid ” indigenous knowledge into science. And a necessary medical school at the University of Alberta teaches about “indigenous way ” of understanding “health … and being one with nature. ”
In the meantime, high school and college students are taught that the West’s history of “settler-colonialism ” is responsible for just about any conceivable ill. Courses and workshops on “whiteness, ” “white supremacy, ” “white fragility, ” etc. support all that and then some.
The irony of the CBS story is that 1 ) the Maya/Teotihuacan never encountered Europeans ( their eventual successors, the Aztec, would n’t meet Cortez and Co. until 700 years later ), and 2 ) the Maya actually were quite advanced mathematically and scientifically. So, even on an oppression studies foundation, there’s no cause to accept their horrible practice of human compromise.
But whoever said tyranny research and its members make any sense?
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IMAGE CAPTION & CREDIT: Animal sacrifice at a Mesoamerican sanctuary; Background in Story/X
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