(LifeSiteNews) — A high school history teacher defended Incan child sacrifices as “voluntary” and “kind,” claiming that those who object to them have had a “white” education.
In a video published to her TikTok channel, which recently went viral after a repost by Matt Walsh on X, European history teacher Emily Pool said she would “die on the hill” of defending the Incan civilization despite their child sacrifices.
Teacher says the child sacrifices of the Incan Empire were “voluntary” and “kind,” and claims that viewing them as evil means you had a “White education.”
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Pool whitewashed Inca human sacrifices as a merciful alternative to an almost-standard practice, since “most other civilizations throughout history” carried out human sacrifice, she said.
“In terms of sacrifice, they were kind about it,” Because unlike … ripping a beating heart out of someone’s chest, the Inca would use coca leaves … to drug up the sacrifice and leave them on a cold chilly mountain to be exposed to the elements,” said Pool.
“A volunteer sacrifice where you’re heavily drugged before you die …?” she said before shrugging as if to suggest such a method of killing is not so bad.
According to anthropologist Maria Costanza Ceruti, archaeological evidence shows that the Inca Capacocha ritual of sacrifice was actually primarily performed through four other methods: strangulation, a blow to the head, suffocation, or being buried alive while unconscious.
Pool continued in her defense of the Incas, “Also I could equate human sacrifice throughout history to so many things,” without naming specifics.
She said that those who condemn the Incas for their practice of human sacrifice show by their objection that they have had a “white education,” because they “are knowing them for the bad things that they have done, and not all the wonders that they accomplished.”
Pool was scathingly rebuked by commentators for her defense of the ritualistic killing of innocent children and her claim that it took place with “consent.”
“I don’t know what’s more deranged, the idea that it’s kind to leave somebody to die on a mountaintop, as long as you give them cocaine and hallucinogens ahead of time, or the idea that an 8-year-old child sacrifice could in any sense be considered a volunteer who consented to this practice,” remarked Daily Wire pundit Matt Walsh.
Walsh believes that Pool and other liberals defend the Inca child sacrifices because it is consistent with their defense of the modern-day sacrifice of babies through abortion. He suggested that this is what Pool had in mind when she said there are equivalents to historical human sacrifice.
“Presumably, she also believes that it’s kind when women execute their own children today,” said Walsh.
Mark Meckler, the co-founder of Tea Party Patriots, slammed Pool’s defense of child sacrifice and dismantled the idea that any real consent was involved. He pointed out that not only did the children have “no choice” in the matter, but the parents were also coerced into sacrificing their children through external pressures.
“So no … sorry. This was a vicious, violent pagan society. But apparently, it’s her favorite. No doubt she still believes in human sacrifice in the form of abortion,” wrote Meckler.
Media law attorney Mark R. Weaver responded to her speech, “She says she will die on this hill.’ She shouldn’t be killed or hurt in any way but perhaps her teaching career should (metaphorically) die on the hill of lauding those who killed people for fantasy beliefs.
