This World Cup did at least teach some people there are very loud Spaniards online who deny that Spain - Spain! - colonized anywhere bc they have their own dumb version of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy about how the Empire treated everyone well actually
"It's the Black Legend of Spain. In the age of colonization European powers who had slaves and were colonizing the world declared Spain brutal for doing the exact same thing."
"I guess that's hypocritical but -"
"And actually when we colonized places it wasn't colonization bc we treated everyone well. And you can never call modern Spain racist or ever criticize Christopher Columbus in any way because that's very racist against Spain."
"What"
















