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This is why I find the term "genocide" pointless outside of very central cases (basically the Holocaust and anything that looks a lot like it), because any discussion is literal rules-lawyering. Genocide needs to be intentional to be genocide, there's a whole Genocide Convention which says that. We can say that the Spanish were highly murderous without using the G-word (though I would assume there were cases where the Spanish intentionally slaughtered entire tribes, which one could reasonably call small genocides).
Let me bring back your initial statement: "Not controversial among whom? Europeans had been fine with genocide as "kill them all" until about 19th century when the "white man's burden" took over". I think it's fair to say that the Spanish actions being controversial at the time, chastised by the Church, the subject of heated debates in the metropole, and motivating policy actions from the Crown meant to put a leash on them means that they were at least "controversial" at the time and not a case of everybody being "fine with genocide".
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