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The speaker argues that there is no plausible interpretation of Spanish conquest as an effort to free Indigenous people from oppression.
Unresolved speaker · Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires? · 1 Oct 2026
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“there wasn't a sense of like we're freeing these people from the shackles of oppression or at least there's no plausible story you could tell where there's that that's what you're doing but”1:21:06Report a misattribution
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0.80importance to the conversation
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