The deployment of psychological weapons in the subjugation of conquered peoples is a strategy widely recognized. Naked aggression might win wars but it does not efficiently subjugate conquered peoples. It tends to foment rebellion and create instability.
As much as global multi-culturalism, with its promise of increased international harmony, is a welcome break from the imperial tyranny of the past; it has also been undeniably deployed as a weapon to quell discontent among groups that were victims of genocide and whose survivors have been banished to the margins of a brave new world anxious to forget their just grievances.
The deliberate creolization of Brazil, Haiti, and the Caribbean as a means to manage the natural impulse of Blacks to resist repression through race mixing and stratification is documented in the public record. The fact that the church was in fact not just complicit, but in fact, the central tool of successful enforcement is also a matter of historical fact.
Increasingly, the church, not known for its ability to either change its mind nor acknowledge its errors, (in spite of the central tenets of its proclaimed theology…..it took the Catholic church several centuries to finally admit that the world was indeed not flat) has been reluctantly seeking to come to terms with its genocidal past, so hurtful to its self image of being refuge of salvation for nations and the world’s poor.
Very current topic in theological circles, the historical case was stated in the article:
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