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05/22 - International Day for Biological Diversity [1]

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Date: 2023-05-22

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It is the International Day for Biological Diversity I know that a great many in the US have very negative views of "diversity" and hence dislike the word, but here we are talking about maintaining and/or restoring the complex ecosystems that keep us alive and are necessary for our long term survival as a species. There are still many who find that objectionable if it means things like not being allowed to drive their high powered quad atv anywhere and everywhere they feel like or hunting endangered species, but truly great numbers support or at least pay lip service to conservation, preservation, and similar ideas. Even many corporations and other businesses pretend to support such things as biological diversity or conservation and the like because it is good PR. That means that their marketing folks believe that there are great numbers of real people who believe that such things are good, else they wouldn't waste a single penny even pretending to support them.

In 1370, between six and twenty Jews were murdered and the rest of the Jewish community was banished from Brussels, Belgium, for allegedly desecrating consecrated Host. This is known as The Brussels Massacre

In 1520, the Aztecs obtained permission from the occupying Spaniards to celebrate the festival of Tóxcatl during the fall of Tenochtitlan. The Spaniards then massacred all of the nobles and warriors attending the ceremony because they had gold ornamentation and were unarmed and because they were conquistadores and that's what they did, it was their job. This is known as The Massacre In the Great Temple, The Massacre of Alvarado, or The Massacre at the Festival of Tóxcatl. Seeing as how the perps served under Cortes, it could also be considered to simply be business as usual, since Aztec warriors would've probably been very unruly slaves.

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