Birdwatch Note Rating
2023-10-09 17:15:32 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 47A24E41B80E4EBB5565D4D9CD51F7FE42EB53B9FAAF1A67BA6E2FA5CCE6A36C
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Columbus's contemporaneous reports of cannibals were used as pretext to enslave, rape, torture, and kill large numbers of indigenous peoples in the lands he governed. Modern revival of these spurious cannibal claims have been met with widespread denouncement by academics. https://around.uoregon.edu/content/researchers-denounce-revived-theory-caribbean-cannibalism https://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stories/2021/08/dispelling-false-claims-of-cannibalistic-caribs-again.html https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-95558-7
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