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Christopher Columbus is a hero.
Posted on 10/9/17 at 10:59 am
Posted on 10/9/17 at 10:59 am
He sailed the ocean blue on a little wooden ship.
His voyage is the equivalent of a moon mission today. He had no support. Nobody to rescue him. No navigators.
He did not know what he would find.
Non-Euro crybabies are just jealous that their people never did anything so awesome. White people are magic.
His voyage is the equivalent of a moon mission today. He had no support. Nobody to rescue him. No navigators.
He did not know what he would find.
Non-Euro crybabies are just jealous that their people never did anything so awesome. White people are magic.
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Posted on 10/9/17 at 11:02 am to Numberwang
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White people are magic.
wow
Posted on 10/9/17 at 11:02 am to Numberwang
WSJ had an article on Columbus a week ago. It said he did NOT mistakenly call the natives 'Indians' thinking he had landed in India. He knew he wasn't in India. He called them a word loosely translated as 'not very advanced people.' It later got turned into 'Indians'.
Posted on 10/9/17 at 11:06 am to Numberwang
I support Columbus day because it makes the mentally ill faction of this nation have life threatening levels of high blood pressure and outrage
My favorite new holiday
Christopher Columbus is an American hero! Are you outraged yet!
My favorite new holiday
Christopher Columbus is an American hero! Are you outraged yet!
Posted on 10/9/17 at 11:08 am to Giant Leaf
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I support Columbus day because it makes the mentally ill faction of this nation have life threatening levels of high blood pressure and outrage
That's certainly a wise way to determine value. Congratulations on openly being part of the problem.
Posted on 10/9/17 at 11:09 am to Numberwang
Fun fact: Columbus could be viewed as one of the earliest figures of diversity to be embraced by the fledgling US. As an Italian sailing under a Spanish flag, Columbus' non-Britishness was useful to a nation seeking to forge its own identity, apart from its expelled colonial master.
Posted on 10/9/17 at 11:10 am to Numberwang
He wasn't even there when all the murders happened I don't think. Dude was on good terms with the Indians and sailed back home. His men eventually started raping and killing.
Posted on 10/9/17 at 11:10 am to Numberwang
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Christopher Columbus is a hero. by Numberwang
If you ain't first....you're last.
Posted on 10/9/17 at 11:10 am to Numberwang
Columbus started the transatlantic slave trade
Posted on 10/9/17 at 11:12 am to Numberwang
The great Chinese fleet did some impressive exploration.
Posted on 10/9/17 at 11:18 am to el Gaucho
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Columbus started the transatlantic slave trade
Not any more than Leif Erickson did.
Posted on 10/9/17 at 11:21 am to Lima Whiskey
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The great Chinese fleet did some impressive exploration.
As did the Vikings.
The Chinese are kind of a different beast in these discussions - depending on the period in history, they were either very inward-looking or very probing, vacillating back and forth and back and forth depending on the emperor and regime.
As for Columbus, my understanding is that he was personally more concerned with proselytizing than economic or political matters. And the Portuguese had founded a robust African slave trade more than sixty years before he landed in the Western hemisphere. It wasn't much of a logical and economic leap from conquering new lands to importing an existing slave trade from there.
Posted on 10/9/17 at 11:22 am to rbWarEagle
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Congratulations on openly being part of the problem.
I am completely okay with it
Wear it with a badge of honor in fact
Then again your problem is that mentally ill people are being oppressed because of activity 500 years ago. It would take a retard to be offended by that bullshite.
Posted on 10/9/17 at 11:23 am to Numberwang
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He sailed the ocean blue on a little wooden ship.
His voyage is the equivalent of a moon mission today. He had no support. Nobody to rescue him. No navigators.
He did not know what he would find.
Non-Euro crybabies are just jealous that their people never did anything so awesome. White people are magic.
The moon landing would probably be viewed a bit differently if, once we landed, we found out that people had been living there for thousands of years, so we rounded them up and limited them to a tiny fraction of the moon's surface while taking most of the land and resources for ourselves.
Look, I'm by no means one of those "he who finds it first gets to keep it forever" type people, one doesn't need to be a SJW to acknowledge that Columbus didn't discover a damned thing
Posted on 10/9/17 at 11:26 am to texag7
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He definitely saw profit in enslaving and selling native peoples kidnapped from Caribbean shores. Once he made allies among what he called “good Indians,” Columbus advocated fighting and enslaving native groups he presumed to be cannibals. By 1500, he and his brothers had sent nearly 1,500 enslaved islanders to European markets to be sold. Even “friendly” indigenous peoples were forced to mine gold en masse, speeding death from malnourishment, overwork and disease.
Posted on 10/9/17 at 11:27 am to Numberwang
I love Columbus and am proud of my 100% European heritage 
Posted on 10/9/17 at 11:29 am to Zach
They were primitive as frick and only their savagery and guerilla tactics allowed them to put up as much resistance to the superior European settlers as they did.
Posted on 10/9/17 at 11:30 am to SirWinston
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I love Columbus and am proud of my 100% European heritage
You mean you do not think warlords in Africa have the right to kill anyone they please and siphon money as they so desire from the commoners?
You are pretty much a racist
We need to be Africa
Posted on 10/9/17 at 11:32 am to asurob1
It’s worth noting that our views on slavery amount to a historical aberration. Slavery was a normal and accepted practice for thousands of years. If you or I was born in that period, would we consider slavery immoral?
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