NY Times Takes Sides In Brexit: Cadiz and Armada a Myth

It's stunning to read that Queen Elizabeth's Muslim alliance kept the Spanish from invading England  in the 16th century (NYT 9/18/16).  That's a doozy of a history revision.   Ever since high school I thought it was the weather and Sir Francis Drake that defeated the Spanish Armada.   As for the Spanish deciding to invade England,  isn't the author of this revision, Jerry Brotton, overly aggressive in suggesting it was simply a matter of religion.   At the time England was persecuting its own Catholics, instigating rebellion in the Spanish Netherlands and sending pirate raiders to attack Spanish possessions in the Americas.  Indeed,  England was the first to attack Spain in 1587 when Sir Francis Drake raided Cadiz and followed with attacks on Portuguese ports and Spanish shipping, claiming to destroy 100 Spanish ships. 

If you think America has trouble getting over its Civil War and Latino immigrants,  the English and their obsession with "black-hearted" Catholic Spain has America beat by centuries.
At a time when The Times is chastising Trump's fibbing about Mexicans,  it appears The Times is siding with England in the Brexit propaganda war and doing some fibbing of its own.
  

Times Racist Past: the Mexican Greaser and the Orphan Kidnappings

As between the Anglo-Saxon hoodlum and the Mexican "greaser" who to so large an extent compose the citizenship of Arizona, and contend between themselves for the control of its destinies when it is admitted to statehood...we dislike to be forced to a choice.... Since no bones were broken their experience is not to be deplored if it has taught them [the Sisters of Charity] to abstain in the future from handing over American foundlings to be reared in Mexican homes.
-- Foundlings in Arizona, NY Times, 11/6/1904

See Linda Gordon's The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction for the details on this racist, anti-Catholic episode from America's past, when Arizona vigilantes kidnapped New York orphans before the Sisters of Charity could place them in the prosperous homes of Mexican miners.