As with the Carthaginians, it was also long-fashionable to downplay or even deny Mesoamerican human sacrifice, until the weight of the archeological evidence corroborating the scale of the Conquistadors' accounts became too great: https://www.science.org/content/article/feeding-gods-hundred...
> A lot of things are claimed by researchers in the soft sciences, and I take all of it with a grain of salt
The "soft sciences" have a strong left-wing bias in general (c.f. Haidt), and if anything, the tendency would be to want to downplay the atrocities perpetrated by non-whites, so your skepticism seems misdirected.
> A lot of things are claimed by researchers in the soft sciences, and I take all of it with a grain of salt
The "soft sciences" have a strong left-wing bias in general (c.f. Haidt), and if anything, the tendency would be to want to downplay the atrocities perpetrated by non-whites, so your skepticism seems misdirected.