We are lousy genocidaires

Not everyone can say the same thing. In 1258, the Mongols razed Baghdad to the ground and killed all its inhabitants, including women and children, and when Tamerlane conquered Isfahan in 1387 he built 28 towers with 1,500 defeated heads each, as told by his official chronicler Hafiz-i-Abru, who saw it with his own eyes and who cannot be criticized if he passes on praise to his boss... for what might happen to him.
Examples abound, and the sad fact is that these savages are not exclusive to distant times and continue to occur today with the Nazis as responsible for the genocide of the Jews, while Stalin displaced entire populations of Tartars and murdered opponents in his terrible "gulags"; and the Turks are like panthers when they are reminded of the genocide of the Armenians in 1915.
The Hutus hacked to death all the Tutsis they encountered in Rwanda in 1994, and the Serbs did the same to the Bosnians in Srebrenica and elsewhere, for which nationalist leaders Karadzic and Mladic were tried and convicted at the Court of Human Rights in The Hague.
Even closer to home, Burmese Buddhists have murdered Muslim Rohingya, burned their villages and forced the survivors into exile to Bangladesh, while China is accused of putting one million Uighur Muslims from Xinjiang into "re-education camps" to erase their identity.
It seems as if we are determined to confirm the Hobbesian assertion that "man is a wolf for man" which denies the idea of linear progress towards Nietzsche's superman, so dear to the clueless Marxists who are still around.
These days we have witnessed a new iconoclastic fury when mostly ignorant and manipulated multitudes have dedicated themselves to knocking down the statues that they found in their path without distinguishing very well between one and the other, moved by the example that came from the United States after the death of George Floyd, an African-American strangled under the merciless knee of a white policeman. This brutal act shocked a society that suffers from racial segregation and that exploited it in demand of equality, dignity and punishment of the guilty. Thus, statues of Confederate leaders who defended slavery in the American Civil War were torn down in the United States, rightly considering that the current segregation of African-Americans descends directly from the slave status of their grandparents. And in England, the statue of one Colston who was a slave trader was thrown into the water (only there are they capable of erecting a statue of a slave trader), and in Belgium, the statues of King Leopold who was the personal owner of the Congo where unspeakable atrocities were committed, as recounted by Joseph Conrad in "Heart of Darkness. And in Madrid some mindless person, not wanting to be left behind, wrote "murderer" on an effigy of Alexander Fleming in the Monumental bullring. I guess he didn't know he was the inventor of penicillin, thanks to which many lives have been saved. He must have thought Fleming was a bullfighter. More serious are the attacks on the statues of Christopher Columbus and Friar Juniper Serra.
That they do it in the United States seems wrong, but that the same thing happens in Palma or Madrid seems even sadder to me. They are accused of mistreating the Indians when one put them in contact with the rest of the world, and the other tried to bring them out of the Stone Age. The mistake is to judge people from other times with our mentality. If even today you don't just change your geography but your mentality and values when you travel from Spain to Morocco, what will not happen when you leave the 21st to the 15th century? Emperor Hadrian would never have understood that he was condemned as a pedophile, or Atahualpa that he was criticized for ripping out the hearts of the defeated, and the redskins for ripping out the hair of the cowboys. And so on.
Which has nothing to do with all those things looking bad to us now. What happens is that the condemnations are selective and so, for political reasons in the 16th century that have to do with the wars in Flanders, it was decided that the conquest and colonization of America was the ultimate in cruelty, the printing press was put at the service of the message that was adorned with the engravings of Theodor de Bry, and since then interested people have dedicated themselves to repeating it in a way that is like a divine mantra that the ignorant masses accept at face value.
Of course, atrocities were committed because there are examples like the one in Cholula, and the arrival of the conquistadors to America spread plagues like smallpox that decimated an indigenous population without defenses. And that we Spaniards are still racist, as our daily language shows, full of condemnable expressions. All of this is true, but even so I am going to give you some objective data that can help you put things right when Spain is accused of genocide in America: the percentage of the population that is mestizo is 63% in Colombia, 57% in Venezuela, 88% in Bolivia, 92% in Ecuador, 82% in Guatemala, 85% in Mexico, 96% in Honduras, 83% in Nicaragua and 75% in Peru? At the same time it is 4% in Canada and 1% in the United States. There is no need to add anything else.