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ANALYSIS: Emphasizing horrors of the practice an example of a ‘quite white education’
An 11-year “veteran” history teacher “with a deep love of learning” recently posted a video in which she claims human sacrifices performed by the ancient Inca civilization were “voluntary” and “kind.”
Emily Pool, who according to her Linkedin page is “talented in successfully differentiating learning styles in for [sic] socially, economically, and racially diverse classrooms,” says in her vid the Inca were “kind” about dispatching their victims via sacrifice … because they drugged them first.
“The Inca would use coca leaves … to drug up the sacrifice and leave them on a cold chilly mountain to be exposed to the elements,” the nose ring-wearing Pool (pictured) says. “A volunteer sacrifice where you’re heavily drugged before you die …?”
Pool then just kind of “shrugs” as if to convey not too bad, eh? LifeSiteNews.com reports.
The Colorado high school teacher further claims Incan sacrifices really were no different from “most other civilizations throughout history in times of crisis,” adding she “could equate human sacrifice throughout history to so many things” (but doesn’t).
What’s more, Pool argues that sacrifice volunteers being from the Incan elite, not lower classes, made the practice less horrific.
But according to anthropologist Maria Ceruti, the first woman to specialize in high-altitude archeology, research indicates Inca human sacrifice included “strangulation, a blow to the head, suffocation, or being buried alive while unconscious,” the LifeSiteNews report notes.
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Pool also says in her video those appalled by the concept of human sacrifice, given other horrors in human history, are “indicative” of a “quite white education” — a focus on the bad stuff (like sacrifices) and not the “wonders [the Inca] accomplished.”
Teacher says the child sacrifices of the Incan Empire were “voluntary” and “kind,” and claims that viewing them as evil means you had a “White education.”
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Pool said in a school paper interview that she uses TikTok because it “democratizes learning.”
Her comments regarding human sacrifice mirror those of a Mexican archeologist who said of Mayan sacrifices “It’s not that [its practitioners] were violent,” it was just “their way of connecting with the celestial bodies.”
As a former teacher who occasionally delved into the topic of the great pre-conquest Native American civilizations, I covered the wonders of the Inca (and Maya and Aztecs) rather extensively — their incredible system of roads, mathematics, and agrarian adaptations, etc. — in addition to disturbing cultural/religious practices like human sacrifice.
Progressive educators often chide peers for emphasizing the U.S.’s accomplishments to the exclusion or minimization of its sins (like slavery and racial exclusion), but at the same time they have little issue with the notion of the “noble” Native.
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IMAGE CAPTION & CREDIT: Emily Pool lectures her audience about the Inca; Emily Pool/TikTok
