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Dude, those indios were gonna go to hell if they kept reading those books. Letting them be tortured for all eternity would be truly depraved. I think the word
by labster 3y ago
Dude, those indios were gonna go to hell if they kept reading those books. Letting them be tortured for all eternity would be truly depraved.
I think the word you were looking for is “narrow-minded”. But even then, Landa thought he had gone through enough to see that there was nothing of value in the Maya books. Even tried to learn the language a little. He just didn’t have the mental and cultural framework to care about other perspectives.
- hackernewds 3y agoYou're giving a racist and close-minded Bishop too much credit IMHO
- maweki 3y agoOr you're attributing malice when stupidity suffices. Hanlon's razor.
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 3y agoHanlon's razor is great and all. But sometimes there really is just a lot of malice and stupidity at the same time.
- CatWChainsaw 3y agoStupidity is itself malicious. CatWChainsaw's Nastier Razor.
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 3y agoYou know they tortured people right? This wasn't some soft-minded priest who just wanted to save them from the devil, by offering them waffles and a nice little chat.