First let me state the obvious: all humans are the same, with the same rights, the same qualities, the same flaws, there is no such thing as a race, and no culture is better or worse than another. Racism is stupid. Going even further, everything living being deserves respect.
All that said, this documentary is as intolerant as what it condemns. What they show is obviously awful but this does not give the folks in the movie the right to judge anybody from the past. They should show the pictures and state the facts objectively, but the whole documentary is instead a huge trial, the narrator speaks like an inquisitor who condemns everybody as he sees fit. They are so convinced that they are right (and they are, strangely enough) that, if they had lived in the 16th century, they would themselves have killed native americans because they would have been convinced that non-Christians were animals. It is easy to be a humanist a posteriori. The folks in this movie appear endoctrinated about something that just happens to be right, but they are still endoctrinated. Historians should not be judges. But, to conclude, the worst thing in this documentary is still the narrator's voice, with its preacher's tone full of hatred and the cheap dramatic theatrics that are not suited for historical events.
Final note: some of my ancestors were slaves and went through some of the inhumane treatments described in this documentary, so what is shown and said means a lot to me. But, if the words are correct and should be told, they are are not told the right way here. Let us comdemn historical bigotry without being bigots outselves.
All that said, this documentary is as intolerant as what it condemns. What they show is obviously awful but this does not give the folks in the movie the right to judge anybody from the past. They should show the pictures and state the facts objectively, but the whole documentary is instead a huge trial, the narrator speaks like an inquisitor who condemns everybody as he sees fit. They are so convinced that they are right (and they are, strangely enough) that, if they had lived in the 16th century, they would themselves have killed native americans because they would have been convinced that non-Christians were animals. It is easy to be a humanist a posteriori. The folks in this movie appear endoctrinated about something that just happens to be right, but they are still endoctrinated. Historians should not be judges. But, to conclude, the worst thing in this documentary is still the narrator's voice, with its preacher's tone full of hatred and the cheap dramatic theatrics that are not suited for historical events.
Final note: some of my ancestors were slaves and went through some of the inhumane treatments described in this documentary, so what is shown and said means a lot to me. But, if the words are correct and should be told, they are are not told the right way here. Let us comdemn historical bigotry without being bigots outselves.
