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

This is a bad thread. Life was cheap back then and anyone that wasn't a ruthless motherfricker would not be in the history books at all, much less with the notoriety of Columbus.

You couldn't be a wilting daisy to hop a ship with a bunch of savages and sail across the ocean in uncharted waters to your very likely death.

The explorers were all crazy madmen.