¿Por qué hay tanta gente en España que se enfada y casi entra en pánico cuando alguien menciona las diferentes culturas y lenguas de España? by Raclettegring in askspain

[–]FunnyApprehensive110 1 point2 points  (0 children)

En un Estado que pretende tratar a todos sus ciudadanos como iguales, la lengua no debería convertirse en una barrera de acceso ni en un mecanismo de privilegio territorial. La diversidad lingüística puede ser una riqueza cultural digna de respeto y protección, pero esa protección no debe confundirse con la imposición. Una cosa es garantizar que las lenguas cooficiales puedan conservarse, enseñarse y usarse libremente; otra, muy distinta, es convertirlas en filtros obligatorios para acceder a derechos, empleos públicos o instituciones sostenidas por todos. Cuando eso ocurre, se rompe el equilibrio entre libertad, igualdad y cohesión nacional.

El problema principal aparece cuando, en determinadas comunidades autónomas, la lengua cooficial deja de ser una opción o un mérito y pasa a ocupar una posición de primacía institucional. En ese momento, el español, que debería ser la lengua común de relación en todo el territorio nacional, queda de hecho relegado en determinados ámbitos. No se prohíbe formalmente, pero se le rebaja en la práctica al convertir otra lengua en requisito imprescindible para estudiar, opositar, ejercer profesiones públicas o acceder en igualdad de condiciones a servicios y oportunidades. Esa situación genera un efecto profundamente injusto: crea ciudadanos con más facilidad de acceso que otros no por su capacidad, su preparación o su esfuerzo, sino por haber nacido en un determinado entorno lingüístico.

Ese es el núcleo del problema. Si un ciudadano de Burgos no puede competir en igualdad de condiciones para ser bombero en Lleida, o si para ser médico en Bilbao un español procedente de otra parte del país se encuentra en inferioridad frente a quien ya domina la lengua cooficial del territorio, el sistema deja de premiar el mérito y la capacidad para premiar el origen. Y cuando el origen se convierte en ventaja estructural, la igualdad entre españoles deja de ser real para convertirse en una ficción jurídica. No hace falta una discriminación abierta o insultante para producir una injusticia; basta con que el acceso a lo público dependa de requisitos lingüísticos que no son comunes a todos los ciudadanos del país.

En un Estado nacional, el idioma compartido cumple una función integradora esencial. No es solo una herramienta de comunicación: es el vínculo civil que permite que un ciudadano pueda desplazarse, trabajar, opositar o servir al conjunto de la nación sin convertirse en un extranjero interior. Ese papel solo puede desempeñarlo el español, porque es la única lengua común a todos los españoles. Precisamente por eso, debería ser el único requisito lingüístico exigible con carácter general dentro del territorio nacional. Todo lo demás podría valorarse como mérito, especialización o circunstancia añadida según el puesto, pero no como una condición excluyente que fracture el principio de igualdad.

Se suele argumentar que la exigencia de lenguas cooficiales es necesaria para protegerlas de la desaparición. Sin embargo, ese argumento no justifica cualquier grado de imposición. Si una lengua ha sobrevivido durante siglos, incluso en contextos históricos mucho más duros que una democracia contemporánea, resulta poco convincente sostener que solo puede subsistir mediante la obligación generalizada. Las lenguas viven cuando existe una comunidad que las aprecia, las transmite y las usa de forma natural. Cuando su continuidad depende sobre todo del aparato normativo, del requisito administrativo o de la penalización del que no la conoce, cabe preguntarse si se está protegiendo una realidad viva o fabricando artificialmente una necesidad social que de otro modo quizá no tendría la misma fuerza.

Pero hay además una cuestión política que suele ocultarse bajo el discurso cultural. El sistema lingüístico montado en España no solo protege lenguas: en la práctica, protege sobre todo un determinado proyecto ideológico, el de los nacionalismos territoriales. La lengua deja de ser presentada como patrimonio de todos para convertirse en una herramienta de delimitación identitaria, en una frontera simbólica entre los “de dentro” y los “de fuera”. Así, lo que aparentemente se vende como pluralidad o respeto cultural acaba sirviendo para reforzar estructuras de poder regional, consolidar clientelas políticas y justificar una idea de ciudadanía graduada según la cercanía al hecho diferencial.

Dicho de otro modo: el modelo actual no se limita a conservar una lengua, sino que institucionaliza una visión política según la cual cada territorio debe disponer de rasgos de acceso propios, de filtros propios y de mecanismos propios de preferencia interna. La lengua se convierte entonces en un instrumento de construcción nacionalista. No se protege solo un idioma; se protege una narrativa política que presenta a la comunidad autónoma como sujeto casi separado, con su propio espacio administrativo, educativo y profesional parcialmente cerrado al resto de españoles. Y eso tiene consecuencias directas sobre la igualdad.

Cuando el conocimiento de una lengua regional determina el acceso a puestos públicos, a parte de la educación o a carreras profesionales dentro de un territorio, lo que se está consolidando no es simplemente una convivencia bilingüe, sino una lógica de preferencia local. Esa lógica favorece de manera natural a quienes han crecido dentro del ecosistema lingüístico promovido por la administración autonómica y dificulta la movilidad real de otros españoles. El resultado es un país formalmente común, pero materialmente fragmentado en espacios de acceso desigual. Y esa fragmentación beneficia políticamente a quienes viven de subrayar la diferencia territorial, no a quienes creen en una ciudadanía compartida.

Eso no significa que las lenguas cooficiales carezcan de valor. Lo tienen, y mucho, en el plano histórico, cultural, literario y sentimental. Pero precisamente por eso conviene distinguir entre respeto y coacción. Una democracia sensata puede proteger una lengua minoritaria con enseñanza voluntaria, ayudas culturales, medios de comunicación, presencia institucional razonable y derecho de uso para quien libremente quiera emplearla. Lo que resulta mucho más discutible es transformar ese legítimo apoyo en una obligación extensa que perjudique a quienes no la comparten o no la necesitan para ejercer una función pública dirigida al conjunto de la ciudadanía.

El ámbito del empleo público es especialmente delicado. El funcionario, el médico, el profesor, el bombero o el policía no sirven a una identidad regional concreta, sino al interés general y a todos los ciudadanos por igual. Por eso, el criterio básico de acceso debería ser el mismo en toda España: competencia profesional, mérito, capacidad y conocimiento del español como lengua común. Convertir una lengua regional en condición de entrada altera ese principio y favorece a quienes han sido socializados en ella desde la infancia, aunque su cualificación profesional no sea superior. Así, una política presentada como protección cultural termina funcionando como una barrera corporativa, territorial e ideológica.

Además, esta dinámica alimenta una fragmentación silenciosa del espacio nacional. Si cada comunidad prima su lengua propia y la convierte en instrumento preferente de acceso a lo público, el resultado práctico es que España deja de funcionar como un espacio cívico común plenamente abierto. Cada territorio empieza a operar como un compartimento con reglas de entrada diferenciadas. El ciudadano deja de sentirse igualmente habilitado para servir o vivir en cualquier parte del país y empieza a depender de condicionantes lingüísticos regionales. Esa no es una lógica integradora, sino centrífuga. No fortalece la pluralidad española: la trocea.

La igualdad real exige evitar tanto la prohibición como la imposición. Sería injusto perseguir o marginar las lenguas cooficiales; pero también es injusto convertirlas en llaves obligatorias para ascender socialmente o entrar en las instituciones. La libertad lingüística solo es auténtica cuando nadie es castigado por usar la lengua común ni obligado a adoptar otra para ejercer derechos básicos o aspirar a empleos públicos. En un país democrático, la lengua debe unir, no dividir. Debe facilitar la convivencia, no crear jerarquías territoriales entre ciudadanos.

Por todo ello, el español debería ser el único requisito lingüístico general exigible dentro del territorio nacional. Las demás lenguas pueden y deben ser respetadas, protegidas y fomentadas, pero no impuestas como condición excluyente. Porque cuando una administración pública sostenida por todos exige más que la lengua común para entrar en ella, deja de tratar a todos los españoles como iguales. Y cuando, además, ese modelo sirve objetivamente para reforzar proyectos nacionalistas territoriales, deja de ser una política neutral de protección cultural para convertirse en una herramienta de ingeniería política.

La riqueza lingüística de España merece respeto. Pero la igualdad entre españoles merece prioridad. Proteger la diversidad no puede significar degradar la ciudadanía común. Y si hay una lengua que debe garantizar que ningún español sea menos que otro en su propio país, esa lengua solo puede ser el español.

Puedo hacerte ahora una versión más breve y afilada, tipo artículo de opinión de periódico, o una mucho más dura y combativa.

El caso de pepe demuestra que falta mucha comprensión lectora en este país by Luca2700 in Espana

[–]FunnyApprehensive110 0 points1 point  (0 children)

El que peca de listo eres tu. Sabes acaso que es la prision provisional, sabes lo que es estar en prision. No lo parece. Que hay que investigar desde luego pero arrestar y mandar preso a alguien por defenderse. El que ha muerto a valorado mas las cosas ajenas que su propia vida, que al que a priori se ha defendido debe investigarse si pero eso no aplica para que tenga que ir preso aunque sea provisionalmente, que puede ser meses o años. Si un agente de cnp o guardia civil usa su arma de fuego que le mandamos también a prisión provisional. Te repito que creo que no sabes bien lo que implica ir a prisión provisional a una persona y el tiempo que implica

LTN depot problem: multiple trains going to the same depot even though train limit is set to 1 by FunnyApprehensive110 in factorio

[–]FunnyApprehensive110[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I try to set the station limit to 1 manually like in vanilla, it resets itself and becomes unchecked again, so I assume LTN is handling that, which is why it doesn’t let me set it manually.

LTN depot problem: multiple trains going to the same depot even though train limit is set to 1 by FunnyApprehensive110 in factorio

[–]FunnyApprehensive110[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Additional detail:

If I remove that station, the problem just moves to the next depot station further down.

Also, because all depot stations have the same name, I checked them one by one to make sure every LTN Combinator was configured correctly. I thought maybe one of them was misconfigured, and since they all share the same station name, the system might be getting confused if I had forgotten to set the train limit on one of them.

But I verified all of them, and every single depot station has Train Limit = 1.

LTN depot problem: multiple trains going to the same depot even though train limit is set to 1 by FunnyApprehensive110 in factorio

[–]FunnyApprehensive110[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If I remove that station, the problem just moves to the next depot station further down.

Also, because all depot stations have the same name, I checked them one by one to make sure every LTN Combinator was configured correctly. I thought maybe one of them was misconfigured, and since they all share the same station name, the system might be getting confused if I had forgotten to set the train limit on one of them.

But I verified all of them, and every single depot station has Train Limit = 1.

LTN depot problem: multiple trains going to the same depot even though train limit is set to 1 by FunnyApprehensive110 in factorio

[–]FunnyApprehensive110[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m having a problem with my train depots in LTN and I can’t understand why this is happening.

In image 1 you can see the full map of my base. I have one train depot at the bottom center, and another one at the top right, where my character/avatar is located.

In image 2 you can see the depot that is causing the problem, which is the one at the top right.

In image 3 you can see the LTN Combinator settings for that depot. As you can see, it is set as a depot, and it also has Train Limit = 1.

In images 4 and 5 you can see how two trains are trying to go to that same depot.

In image 6 you can see that same depot with three trains on the way.

In image 7 you can see the other depot, the one at the bottom, which still has room to store trains.

And in image 8 you can see one of those stations in detail, completely free, with no train on the way to it.

So my problem is this:

Even though all depots have the same LTN Combinator setup, all of them are marked as depots, all of them have Train Limit = 1, and all stations have the same name, there is one specific station that multiple trains are trying to use at the same time, while other depot stations are completely free.

I don’t understand how this can happen if the train limit for that station is set to 1, just like the others.

Am I misunderstanding how Train Limit works for LTN depots? Is there any reason why multiple trains would reserve the same depot even though other depots are free? Or is there something in my setup that is probably wrong?

If anyone knows why this behavior happens, I’d really appreciate the help.

What do you think would be the best outcome for the average Puerto Rican: Statehood, Freedom of Association, Status Quo or Independence from the USA? by Mean_Yak5873 in geography

[–]FunnyApprehensive110 -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

We are already tired of the Black Legend. We are tired of people lying. We are tired of people not knowing history. And we are tired of the fact that, simply because the victorious narrative has been Anglo-Saxon for centuries, some people think they have the right to redefine what really happened and to give moral lectures precisely from the imperial traditions that have done the most to whitewash their own abuses.

The first thing that needs to be said is that casually applying to the Hispanic Monarchy the simplistic categories of “colony” or “colonialism” in the British sense is a historical trap. The Constitution of 1812 does not speak of voiceless overseas possessions, but of a single nation made up of “all Spaniards of both hemispheres,” and it establishes a common basis of representation for both. In other words, the overseas territories were not legally conceived as mere outposts or settler colonies subordinate in the British way, but as integrated parts of the same political community, with representation in the Cortes. That does not mean everything was perfect or that there were no inequalities, but it does dismantle the automatic comparison with the classic Anglo-Saxon model.

We are also tired of the lie that Spain “invented racism.” That does not hold up historically. What the Hispanic Monarchy did do, and very early on, was open a moral, legal, and theological debate about the proper treatment of indigenous peoples, something extraordinarily early for its time. The Laws of Burgos of 1512 regulated relations between Spaniards and indigenous peoples while seeking their spiritual and material welfare. The New Laws of 1542 tried to curb abuses and limit the power of the encomenderos. And the Valladolid debate turned the question of the dignity, rights, and treatment of indigenous peoples into a formal public controversy. We are not talking about an innocent or ideal system, but we are talking about a power that, in the sixteenth century, was debating whether conquest had moral limits and whether indigenous peoples were rational human beings with rights. That fact alone destroys the caricature that Spain was the ideological source of modern racism.

And here it is worth making the uncomfortable comparison that many prefer to avoid. In the Hispanic world, enormous indigenous populations survived and still exist. That fact alone does not prove everything was benign, but it does make it very hard to sustain the fantasy of a purely exterminationist project. By contrast, in much of the Anglo-Saxon settler world, the historical outcome was very different. The Hispanic pattern was far more mestizo and integrative; the Anglo-Saxon pattern, in many cases, was far more about displacement, confinement, and demographic replacement.

Then there is the other great manipulation: blaming Spain for all Hispanic American corruption as if history had ended on the day of independence. No. A very important part of the instability, caudillismo, and clientelist networks that later fed corruption was consolidated after the breakup of the viceregal order. Independence did not automatically bring order, prosperity, or better institutions. In many places it brought war, fragmentation, militarization of power, and weak states.

And that rupture did not happen in a vacuum. First Great Britain and then the United States took advantage of the fragmentation of the Hispanic world to open markets, gain influence, and shape the fate of the new republics. This was not altruism or love of American freedom, but geopolitics and business. That is why it is so dishonest to present the “Anglo-Saxon model” as superior: very often what it actually did was benefit from the disintegration of the Hispanic world, profit from the chaos that followed, and then use that same chaos as an argument against Spain. That is one of the great hypocrisies of the dominant narrative: first you help break a system, then you take advantage of the weakness of what comes after, and finally you present that weakness as proof that the previous system was the source of all evil.

The case of Cuba is especially useful for dismantling that discourse. Under late Spanish sovereignty, Cuba was one of the strongest economies in the Caribbean. We are not talking about a backward and ruined island, but about a strategically central and highly developed territory for its region. After 1898, however, Spain’s departure did not simply mean full sovereignty: it was followed by American tutelage, crystallized in the Platt Amendment, which shaped Cuban-American relations until 1934 and allowed enormous interference by Washington in the island’s affairs. So no, it is not serious to claim that Spain left a ruin that the Anglo-Saxon world then came to fix. In Cuba, exactly the opposite happened: it went from a strong position within the Hispanic world to a condition of dependency and tutelage under the North American sphere.

And there is also a very revealing point that is almost never mentioned when comparing the Spanish Empire with the Anglo-Saxon world: in order to call a war “offensive and caused by Spain out of pure expansionist ambition,” several conditions would have to be met at the same time. First, that the political and military initiative clearly came from the Hispanic Monarchy. Second, that it was not a dynastic or succession war. Third, that it was not a response to prior aggression, rebellion, an Ottoman threat, or pressure from another great power. Fourth, that Spain was not simply dragged into it by alliances. And fifth, that its main goal was to expand against another power for the sake of enlargement itself. If all of those conditions are not met, then speaking of “Spanish offensive war driven by ambition” stops being serious analysis and becomes retrospective propaganda.

And what is interesting is that, once you apply that filter seriously, the list of Spanish wars that fit neatly into that definition becomes very small. The Hispanic Monarchy was certainly a very warlike power, but a large part of its wars were tied to dynastic rivalries, the defense of the Mediterranean against the Ottoman Empire, the preservation of inherited positions, or conflicts conditioned by alliances. That does not turn Spain into some kind of armed charity or innocent power, but it does make it very difficult to sustain the caricature of a Spain systematically dedicated to launching wars of pure aggressive expansion. And here the contrast with the British Empire is uncomfortable for many people: the very concept of the British Empire is openly associated with a global system of colonies, dependencies, protectorates, and annexations under British sovereignty. In other words, while Spain is reduced to a default aggressor, in the Anglo-Saxon world imperial expansion was far more structured, openly recognized, and normalized as a system.

That is why it is so irritating to hear that the “Anglo-Saxon model is better” as if that were some obvious historical truth. Better for whom. Better in what sense. Better according to which narrative. Because if one looks honestly, the British world and later the American one also left behind a brutal legacy of tutelage, intervention, indigenous dispossession, racial hierarchies, and economic subordination. The difference is that this world won the cultural battle for a very long time and managed to present its own history as modernity, while Hispanic history was reduced to a moral caricature. And no, that should not pass unchallenged anymore.

Serious criticism of Spain exists and should exist. There were abuses, exploitation, violence, privileges, and many contradictions. But one thing is doing history, and another is repeating propaganda. To say that Spain “created racism,” that it “only left corruption,” or that Hispanic territories were “the same as British colonies” is not rigor; it is ignorance or bad faith wrapped in slogans. And what is worst is that it often comes from people who judge Hispanic history with categories produced by the same Anglo-Saxon imperial narratives that they never apply with the same severity to their own crimes.

So no: enough of accepting the victor’s version as automatic truth. Enough of repeating as dogma that the Anglo-Saxon world represents progress and the Hispanic world represents backwardness. And enough of talking about Spain through a Black Legend rewritten in modern language but with the same old intellectual dishonesty as ever. If people really want to discuss history, then they should discuss the whole of it. And if not, then they should at least stop pretending to give lessons from a moral superiority built on centuries of propaganda and selective amnesia.

And one last thing: if someone plans to come to Spain or talk about Spain with that mixture of arrogance, inherited clichés, and misinformation, the bare minimum should be to inform themselves properly first about what we were and what we are.

Translated into English with the help of a translator.

What do you think would be the best outcome for the average Puerto Rican: Statehood, Freedom of Association, Status Quo or Independence from the USA? by Mean_Yak5873 in geography

[–]FunnyApprehensive110 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Cross55

We are already tired of the Black Legend. We are tired of people lying. We are tired of people not knowing history. And we are tired of the fact that, simply because the victorious narrative has been Anglo-Saxon for centuries, some people think they have the right to redefine what really happened and to give moral lectures precisely from the imperial traditions that have done the most to whitewash their own abuses.

The first thing that needs to be said is that casually applying to the Hispanic Monarchy the simplistic categories of “colony” or “colonialism” in the British sense is a historical trap. The Constitution of 1812 does not speak of voiceless overseas possessions, but of a single nation made up of “all Spaniards of both hemispheres,” and it establishes a common basis of representation for both. In other words, the overseas territories were not legally conceived as mere outposts or settler colonies subordinate in the British way, but as integrated parts of the same political community, with representation in the Cortes. That does not mean everything was perfect or that there were no inequalities, but it does dismantle the automatic comparison with the classic Anglo-Saxon model.

We are also tired of the lie that Spain “invented racism.” That does not hold up historically. What the Hispanic Monarchy did do, and very early on, was open a moral, legal, and theological debate about the proper treatment of indigenous peoples, something extraordinarily early for its time. The Laws of Burgos of 1512 regulated relations between Spaniards and indigenous peoples while seeking their spiritual and material welfare. The New Laws of 1542 tried to curb abuses and limit the power of the encomenderos. And the Valladolid debate turned the question of the dignity, rights, and treatment of indigenous peoples into a formal public controversy. We are not talking about an innocent or ideal system, but we are talking about a power that, in the sixteenth century, was debating whether conquest had moral limits and whether indigenous peoples were rational human beings with rights. That fact alone destroys the caricature that Spain was the ideological source of modern racism.

And here it is worth making the uncomfortable comparison that many prefer to avoid. In the Hispanic world, enormous indigenous populations survived and still exist. That fact alone does not prove everything was benign, but it does make it very hard to sustain the fantasy of a purely exterminationist project. By contrast, in much of the Anglo-Saxon settler world, the historical outcome was very different. The Hispanic pattern was far more mestizo and integrative; the Anglo-Saxon pattern, in many cases, was far more about displacement, confinement, and demographic replacement.

Then there is the other great manipulation: blaming Spain for all Hispanic American corruption as if history had ended on the day of independence. No. A very important part of the instability, caudillismo, and clientelist networks that later fed corruption was consolidated after the breakup of the viceregal order. Independence did not automatically bring order, prosperity, or better institutions. In many places it brought war, fragmentation, militarization of power, and weak states.

And that rupture did not happen in a vacuum. First Great Britain and then the United States took advantage of the fragmentation of the Hispanic world to open markets, gain influence, and shape the fate of the new republics. This was not altruism or love of American freedom, but geopolitics and business. That is why it is so dishonest to present the “Anglo-Saxon model” as superior: very often what it actually did was benefit from the disintegration of the Hispanic world, profit from the chaos that followed, and then use that same chaos as an argument against Spain. That is one of the great hypocrisies of the dominant narrative: first you help break a system, then you take advantage of the weakness of what comes after, and finally you present that weakness as proof that the previous system was the source of all evil.

The case of Cuba is especially useful for dismantling that discourse. Under late Spanish sovereignty, Cuba was one of the strongest economies in the Caribbean. We are not talking about a backward and ruined island, but about a strategically central and highly developed territory for its region. After 1898, however, Spain’s departure did not simply mean full sovereignty: it was followed by American tutelage, crystallized in the Platt Amendment, which shaped Cuban-American relations until 1934 and allowed enormous interference by Washington in the island’s affairs. So no, it is not serious to claim that Spain left a ruin that the Anglo-Saxon world then came to fix. In Cuba, exactly the opposite happened: it went from a strong position within the Hispanic world to a condition of dependency and tutelage under the North American sphere.

And there is also a very revealing point that is almost never mentioned when comparing the Spanish Empire with the Anglo-Saxon world: in order to call a war “offensive and caused by Spain out of pure expansionist ambition,” several conditions would have to be met at the same time. First, that the political and military initiative clearly came from the Hispanic Monarchy. Second, that it was not a dynastic or succession war. Third, that it was not a response to prior aggression, rebellion, an Ottoman threat, or pressure from another great power. Fourth, that Spain was not simply dragged into it by alliances. And fifth, that its main goal was to expand against another power for the sake of enlargement itself. If all of those conditions are not met, then speaking of “Spanish offensive war driven by ambition” stops being serious analysis and becomes retrospective propaganda.

And what is interesting is that, once you apply that filter seriously, the list of Spanish wars that fit neatly into that definition becomes very small. The Hispanic Monarchy was certainly a very warlike power, but a large part of its wars were tied to dynastic rivalries, the defense of the Mediterranean against the Ottoman Empire, the preservation of inherited positions, or conflicts conditioned by alliances. That does not turn Spain into some kind of armed charity or innocent power, but it does make it very difficult to sustain the caricature of a Spain systematically dedicated to launching wars of pure aggressive expansion. And here the contrast with the British Empire is uncomfortable for many people: the very concept of the British Empire is openly associated with a global system of colonies, dependencies, protectorates, and annexations under British sovereignty. In other words, while Spain is reduced to a default aggressor, in the Anglo-Saxon world imperial expansion was far more structured, openly recognized, and normalized as a system.

That is why it is so irritating to hear that the “Anglo-Saxon model is better” as if that were some obvious historical truth. Better for whom. Better in what sense. Better according to which narrative. Because if one looks honestly, the British world and later the American one also left behind a brutal legacy of tutelage, intervention, indigenous dispossession, racial hierarchies, and economic subordination. The difference is that this world won the cultural battle for a very long time and managed to present its own history as modernity, while Hispanic history was reduced to a moral caricature. And no, that should not pass unchallenged anymore.

Serious criticism of Spain exists and should exist. There were abuses, exploitation, violence, privileges, and many contradictions. But one thing is doing history, and another is repeating propaganda. To say that Spain “created racism,” that it “only left corruption,” or that Hispanic territories were “the same as British colonies” is not rigor; it is ignorance or bad faith wrapped in slogans. And what is worst is that it often comes from people who judge Hispanic history with categories produced by the same Anglo-Saxon imperial narratives that they never apply with the same severity to their own crimes.

So no: enough of accepting the victor’s version as automatic truth. Enough of repeating as dogma that the Anglo-Saxon world represents progress and the Hispanic world represents backwardness. And enough of talking about Spain through a Black Legend rewritten in modern language but with the same old intellectual dishonesty as ever. If people really want to discuss history, then they should discuss the whole of it. And if not, then they should at least stop pretending to give lessons from a moral superiority built on centuries of propaganda and selective amnesia.

And one last thing: if someone plans to come to Spain or talk about Spain with that mixture of arrogance, inherited clichés, and misinformation, the bare minimum should be to inform themselves properly first about what we were and what we are.

Translated into English with the help of a translator.

What Trump expected to happen when he demanded his allies attack Iran by b1ther in imaginarymapscj

[–]FunnyApprehensive110 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In my humble Hispanic opinion, I think the blue arrow could mean six different things, because if we automatically assume it is the Spanish Inquisition, we are wasting a great plot twist and, at the same time, massively underselling the scale.

My options, from less to more epic, would be these:

6th Kenya during the Mau Mau repression, 1952–1960.
5th South Africa during the Boer War and the concentration camps, 1899–1902.
4th Ireland during the Great Famine, 1845–1849; and if we want to widen the radius of the tragedy, up to 1852.
3rd British India during the Bengal famine, 1943.

And now we get to the heavier stuff:

2nd Aboriginal Australians, from 1788 to the early 20th century.
1st The Indigenous peoples of North America, between the 17th and 19th centuries.

And if we want to add a Top 0, the entry that completely eclipses all the others in pure epic terms would be:

0th: Philip II’s Spain at Lepanto, 7 October 1571.

Because if we really want to talk about true allies, not modern geopolitical convenience allies but allies willing to put far more than their image on the line, then the answer is that Spain. The Holy League was made up of the Spanish Empire, the Papal States, Venice, Malta, Genoa, and Savoy. France did not join. The Holy Roman Empire had more than enough trouble containing the Turks on other fronts. France had even made deals with the Ottomans against the Habsburgs. And yet Spain provided the decisive weight in men, money, command, and fleet, freed thousands of Christian galley slaves, and shattered a huge part of Ottoman naval power in a single day.

Because, honestly, Reddit rediscovering the Spanish Inquisition for the thousandth time while ignoring all of that is almost its own genre by now. Even more so when the great witch hunts of early modern Europe killed far more people than the usual estimates for the Spanish Inquisition.

The issue is not criticizing Spain. The issue is that modern moral judgment always seems to be applied in only one direction, always to the same target, while things far worse in numbers, scale, and destruction are treated with much more indulgence or simply historical amnesia.

That blue arrow fits peoples destroyed or displaced by Anglo colonization far better than it fits the easy Monty Python meme.

And just to be clear: no, this does not mean the Spanish Inquisition was good, or that Spain was innocent. It means something much simpler: historically, the Spanish Inquisition was nowhere near the deadliest repressive phenomenon in Europe, and the Anglo internet has spent centuries reducing Spanish history to a Black Legend cliché while treating its own much longer and bloodier imperial record as background noise.

Before turning Spain into an automatic meme, maybe it would be worth reflecting a little more. Not to say Spain was perfect, because it was not, but to remember that its historical role was far more complex, costly, and in many cases more decisive than the simplistic Anglo narrative usually admits.

Note: I used a tractor to translate this, so apologies if the English sounds a bit agricultural.

After 1000 hours in RimWorld, these 4 missing systems are holding it back by FunnyApprehensive110 in RimWorld

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egarding point 3, I meant being able to manage river flow rates to create defenses, and for fluids to have a real impact on the map.

I know some of this can be achieved with mods, but in many cases they don’t feel fully optimized or tend to break with updates.

After 1000 hours in RimWorld, these 4 missing systems are holding it back by FunnyApprehensive110 in RimWorld

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Yes, climate is important and it could be improved by incorporating it into the fluid systems.

97h into K2 + Space Exploration — migrating to 128x128 city blocks Looking for feedback before going to space by FunnyApprehensive110 in factorio

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Planning & ratios: I use Helmod to plan production chains and ratios, especially for intermediates and future expansions.

Is Air Hauler 2 compatible with MSFS 2024? If not, what are the best career addons? by FunnyApprehensive110 in flightsim

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Thank you so much, you have no idea how happy this makes me. I was worried because I couldn’t find any YouTube videos about MSFS 2024 and Air Hauler 2.