Archaeologists recently unearthed a grisly discovery in Guatemala: an altar built by the Teotihuacan people, complete with the remains of three children likely used in ritual sacrifice. The find is significant not only for what it reveals about ancient civilizations but also for how today’s mainstream media chooses to report on it—most notably CBS News, which managed to spin child sacrifice into a “non-violent” cultural practice.

The site, which dates back to Teotihuacan civilization, was located deep in Mayan territory, suggesting significant travel and influence between regions. According to Lorena Paiz, the archaeologist who led the dig, the altar prominently featured a statue of the Storm Goddess, a deity associated with fertility and power. Surrounding the altar were the skeletal remains of three children—none older than four years old.

Let that sink in: children sacrificed, likely in a ceremonial act, on a religious altar in a stone-age culture. It should be a straightforward story of historical brutality—a window into a pre-modern world of religious ritual and violence. But that’s not the narrative CBS chose to emphasize.

Instead, they leaned into woke anthropology.

CBS turned to María Belén Méndez, an archaeologist who was not involved with the project, to add “context.” Rather than discussing the violence or the grim reality of children being ritually killed, Méndez downplayed the horror. According to her, sacrifice wasn’t an act of violence—it was simply how these civilizations “connected with celestial bodies.”

That kind of spin isn’t just absurd—it’s insulting to the intelligence of the public and to the historical record. Ritual child murder is now rebranded by CBS as a form of spiritual expression. Try to imagine the media treating any other culture’s systematic killing of children this way. You can’t—because it only happens when leftist ideology demands it.

This kind of whitewashing is part of the larger “noble savage” narrative that has become central to progressive myth-making. In this telling, pre-colonial societies were idyllic, spiritually in tune with nature, and only corrupted by European influence. Violence, war, slavery, human sacrifice—none of it counts if the perpetrators weren’t Western. Their evils are minimized, rationalized, or, in this case, repackaged as “non-violent.”

Never mind that the Teotihuacan, along with their cultural cousins the Maya and Aztecs, were some of the most brutal regimes in recorded history. They engaged in human sacrifice on a staggering scale. They waged wars to acquire captives specifically for ritual slaughter. They kept slaves. They crushed dissent. And yes, they sacrificed children to gods carved from stone. The idea that these acts can be reframed as spiritual connection rather than brutal domination is an academic and journalistic disgrace.

Why does this kind of narrative matter today? Because the progressive left needs to preserve a worldview in which Western civilization is uniquely evil and colonization is the original sin that ruined paradise. In that story, anything that casts indigenous cultures in a negative light—even something as horrific as child sacrifice—must be deflected, minimized, or reinterpreted as misunderstood.

CBS isn’t reporting the news; they’re shaping a narrative. And in doing so, they’re insulting the real victims of these cultures—those children who were never given the chance to live, their deaths chalked up as just another “spiritual practice.”

Make no mistake, this isn’t about anthropology. It’s about ideology. The left needs a clean narrative in which Western society is to blame for all past and present ills. Exposing the violence and barbarism of non-Western civilizations throws a wrench into that narrative. And that’s why outlets like CBS bend over backwards to protect the mythology—even if it means spinning child sacrifice into a form of peaceful devotion.

This is how far gone the corporate media is. When you start trying to defend or euphemize ritual murder, you’ve lost the plot. And the trust of the American people.