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Incredibly biased article

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The level of fawning bias this article has for its subject is absurd and tonally inappropriate. "They organized the natives into utopian communities"? Utopian by whose standards? The "Father of American Ethnography" and a "proto-humanist", when he was a Spanish missionary, whose primary goal was to eventually exterminate Aztec religion and culture, and that was the reason he wrote his works at all? Yes, he produced important works, but the entire context which he produced them, including WHY they're so important due to deliberate destruction of actual Aztec sources, is being presented here tainted with apologia. It's possible to acknowledge his importance and the scope of his works without uncritically repeating what is essentially colonialist propaganda. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.238.231.38 (talk) 10:41, 18 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]