re: What’s with the revisionist history on Christopher Columbus?

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will never understand the incessant need for progressives to judge people who lived hundreds of years ago by the morals of today.

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But to be fair textbooks were all sanitized for us (me) back in the 70's. Everyone was a folk hero type. Indians taught us how to grow corn and in return we cooked them a kickass lunch. Pass the crayons and Elmer's please.