NPR makes excuses for Aztec human sacrifice that was on a scale with the holocauset in some ways

Becket Adams:

I get the feeling every now and then that academics and journalists place a low value on human life, thinking of it as no more precious than a commodity to be depleted and replenished as necessary.

That is certainly the impression I get this week from reading National Public Radio’s astonishingly gentle take on Aztecan human sacrifice. That is not hyperbole. The publicly funded newsgroup indeed published an article this week downplaying the Aztecs' practice of mass human slaughter.
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Historian Tim Stanley wrote later in 2011 that, “When the Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan was consecrated in 1487 the Aztecs recorded that 84,000 people were slaughtered in four days. That is 21,000 sacrifices per day. I am not even mad about this -- I am impressed. They didn't even kill that many people at Auschwitz on the average day.
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There is much more.l  Making excuses for mass murder is something the left is willing to do to absolve the early migrants from Asia to America.  The Incas were also into human sacrifice to appease "climate change."