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Posted on 7/17/22 at 8:35 pm to Newrow
Nice guys finish last
Posted on 7/17/22 at 8:36 pm to OWLFAN86
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Had we taken his advice to taken then slaves from Mexico we wouldn't have a drug problem in America
Posted on 7/17/22 at 8:36 pm to mtntiger
A great man worthy of every statue ever erected in his honour.
Posted on 7/17/22 at 8:36 pm to mtntiger
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He was a man of his time - nothing more, nothing less.
Lol no. Y’all love the USA Too much. He was an a-hole. Prove me wrong
This post was edited on 7/17/22 at 8:40 pm
Posted on 7/17/22 at 8:37 pm to Newrow
The inferiors should have invented guns if they wanted to live
Posted on 7/17/22 at 8:39 pm to Newrow
This thread just proves how damn great of a show The Sopranos is.
Posted on 7/17/22 at 8:39 pm to Newrow
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Newrow
You emasculated types just can’t understand you can’t judge people of the past through a modern lens.
You are what’s wrong with this country.
Posted on 7/17/22 at 8:40 pm to UndercoverBryologist
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Columbus was such a shitty explorer that when Amerigo Vespucci showed up in 1493, he immeditately understood that Columbus had not landed on the East Indies.
Not enough people believed Vespucci, I suppose, since we still call Western Hemisphere aboriginals Indians.
Posted on 7/17/22 at 8:40 pm to GetCocky11
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Columbus’s conduct in the Caribbean was controversial even in his own time among his contemporaries.
Unfortunately, this tends to be the trend whenever the “man of his time” canard is invoked.
What you tend to see is not so much people who were ignorant and unable to empathize with other people, but rather people who found it easy to rationalize what they knew to be wrong for the sake of maintaining their own standing.
Posted on 7/17/22 at 8:41 pm to OWLFAN86
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Had we taken his advice to taken then slaves from Mexico we wouldn't have a drug problem in America
Zero logic
Posted on 7/17/22 at 8:44 pm to SirWinston
Posted on 7/17/22 at 8:44 pm to Rebel
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You emasculated types just can’t understand you can’t judge people of the past through a modern lens. You are what’s wrong with this country.
Frick off old man
Posted on 7/17/22 at 8:46 pm to Newrow
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Lol no. Y’all love the USA Too much. He was an a-hole. Prove me wrong
Maybe he was. You would have probably stayed in your shack farming potatoes for the rest of your life. Meanwhile, he was exploring the world.
Give up your shite, move to a 3rd world armpit, and cry yourself to sleep.
Posted on 7/17/22 at 8:48 pm to Newrow
The author of this cites De Las Casas, who was an unreliable source, at best. This bullshite is straight out of Howard Zinn.
Posted on 7/17/22 at 8:49 pm to Newrow
You mean Christopher Columbo??
Posted on 7/17/22 at 8:49 pm to Ricardo
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Give up your shite, move to a 3rd world armpit, and cry yourself to sleep.
Chill out Ricardo I’m merely posting on the internetz.
Posted on 7/17/22 at 8:49 pm to GetCocky11
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Columbus’s conduct in the Caribbean was controversial even in his own time among his contemporaries.
What are the sources for this? The theme of colonialism was use your technology to takeover lands and resources from those with inferior technology.
Posted on 7/17/22 at 8:49 pm to LegendInMyMind
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It was a different time. /story.
Interestingly enough, at almost the exact same time as Columbus discovered the Bahamas and in a place almost as close to our border as Columbus was, the Aztecs were building their skull towers and skull racks with thousands of decapitated skulls. At first thought to be captured enemy soldiers, there were found to be as many women as men and even some children. It is believed that this was a ritual intended to appease the gods and "celebrate life."
I did a quick search for this topic on here since it was contemporary to Columbus and geographically similar but came up empty.
So Columbus was a, what was the technical term, dick, but the Aztecs slaughtering thousands of their own people was a celebration of life, e.g., revisionist history piles on Columbus while justifying the Aztecs slaughter.
Ironic, don't you think?
This post was edited on 7/17/22 at 8:52 pm
Posted on 7/17/22 at 8:49 pm to Newrow
Pretty much
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