#the Spanish empire the Spanish Inquisition etc weren’t good
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‘Don’t say colonised, we annexed their land into our state’
Dude…
#don’t mind me but this is a TikTok comment on something about al Andalus and just wtf#seriously wtf I’m not angry or anything just baffled by their logic because the Iberian peninsula was pretty much colonised lol#the arabs/amazigh came in and killed pagans and then forced christians and Jews aka the natives to pay humiliating taxes#aka the jizya simply so that they wouldn’t be killed for existing as non-Muslims as they’d done to the pagans#+ they also had to pay higher taxes on their land than Muslims and they were forbidden from occupying positions of more importance#+ they enslaved Christian women 24/7#literally there’s a tower in the Alhambra named ‘of the captive’ because that’s where a famous Christian-slave-turned-sultan’s-wife was kept#(and btw she wasn’t happy because the moment her husband died she changed her name back to her original one and went back to being a#Christian in Castile)#also about al andalus let’s not forget that Jews were literally forbidden to wear any colour but yellow#so that they could be easily identified like a certain moustached guy once did#AND THE ALMOHADS GENOCIDED CHRISTIANS AND JEWS LOOK IT UP#anyways#the Spanish empire the Spanish Inquisition etc weren’t good#ik that#but it’s not difficult to acknowledge that atrocities can happen both ways and that a past colonial power was bad even though the new#colonial power is also bad and perhaps even worse#like if I ever go to Mexico I’m not going to go around telling people they should be happy we colonised the#because the aztecs were also a supreme piece of shit#history is complex idk why people are so patriotic over medieval empires lol#might delete later lol
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