The Spanish Witches of Cartagena

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60 points·Thevet··7 comments

I guess one take away from this would be, be careful about hearing things that confirm your existing beliefs. Another might be that institutions with too much power and no true goal(being that witches do not exist in real life) become corrupt very easily.

Maybe there is some connection between the Spanish Inquisition and AI, given that most AI/ML systems end up reproducing biases inherent in the data/beliefs of those creating them.

I love (read: hate) how being a witch wasn’t the real problem. The real problem was that she had no affiliation with the church.

I think you had to be baptized in order to fall under the jurisdiction of the Church and be fair game to the Inquisition.

There was a case in Spain (or maybe Portugal) in which Jews were tricked into converting and were then judged by the Inquisition.

Then again, I don't think rules were really a problem.

Not being baptized meant being fair game in general in those times.

As I got a couple of downvotes, I decided to verify it.

From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquisition):

"The Inquisition, as a church-court, had no jurisdiction over Moors and Jews as such.[10] Generally, the Inquisition was concerned only with the heretical behaviour of Catholic adherents or converts.[11]"

People reinforcing group integrity by punishing people with real or imagined distance from the accepted ideology... where am i seeing that today...

Everywhere. And not just from people i “disagree” with.

I´m from Cartagena de Indias Colombia, we still beeing slaves as fck.

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