An indigenous man knocks over a statue of a Spanish conquistador on the 500th anniversary of the European discovery of the Americas, Chiapas, Mexico, 1992

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A true hero!
Everything can change on a New Year's Day
War within a breath, it's land or death!

That vulture came to try and steal your name but now you got a gun
Yeah, this is for the people of the sun!

I'll always admire what the EZLN achieved for themselves.
- The modern Zapatistas have better PR than meaningful achievements.
  
  Autonomy isn't a meaningful achievement?
I remember a couple of years ago things were going around saying the conquistadors were good to the natives and all the bad publicity was a product of anti-spanish propaganda but I only heard people say that on twitter and tumblr and assumed it was a load of crap.
- It's absolutely a load of crap. The conquistadors were horrendous even by the low standards of violent conquerors in the 16th century. And that's a low fucking bar to beat.
  
  I feel like there was a time period in the last decade where after people realized how much history we were taught was false they gravely overcorrected and just assumed everything was a lie.
  
  Or it was all part of some agenda I don't have the brainpower to comprehend.
500 years too late.
- The best time to do something is yesterday; but the second best time is today.

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