Contemporary observers were talking about how much of a shithead he was. It's pretty safe to say he was a shithead.
The fact that people with an agenda managed to retroactively make him into a glorified hero centuries later says more about our current culture than it says about Columbus's contemporaries 500 years ago.
You know that even Columbus' contemporaries condemned him, right?
Columbus’ cruelty was recognized in his own day. Spanish churchmen condemned him for carrying off women from their husbands and subjecting them to the pleasures of other men. Friar Bartolomeo de las Casas, who accompanied Columbus on his third voyage, wrote, “The silence.” His published accounts included contemporary illustrations of native mothers drowning their children to save them from Spanish cruelty.
Also not true. You'll need to be more specific. Every individual person has not committed atrocities and neither has every group of people. Once you start getting into governments of countries you might be getting somewhere.
Good. Columbus was a shithead even by the standards of 16th century shitheads.
Contemporary observers were talking about how much of a shithead he was. It's pretty safe to say he was a shithead.
The fact that people with an agenda managed to retroactively make him into a glorified hero centuries later says more about our current culture than it says about Columbus's contemporaries 500 years ago.
Nothing is quite so disgusting than realizing all the bullshit we were fed about him back when I was in school.
He did do something no person in the world had done before. He may be a shithead , but his impact is undeniable.
If you're talking about DiScOvErInG the the new world, both the Irish and the Vikings beat him to it
What did he do?
He went looking for money and did a genocide.
Sleep with the queen of Spain. But yeah let's be honest, he wasn't exactly the first.
documented the americas which brought its attention to europe
He didn’t discover it. There were clearly already white people there.
some of them may have had a drop impure, so best not acknowledge they exist.
Happy birthday to the GROUND!
MY DADS NOT A PHONE! DUH!!
My dad is not a quill and parchment.
Kiss the curb you shitty bitch. (Talking to Cristobal there.)
unsure if illustration or heavily HDR fried picture
Porque no los dos? 🤷
Arguably the only thing he actually discovered.
What is this, colonialisation for ants!
He discovered that the floor is made up of floor
One of my favorite parts about this new holiday is just how much it pisses off bigots.
Happy Columbus Day OP.
Sorry, I don't celebrate genocidal maniacs, but I am enjoying a happy Indigenous People's Day.
The Aztecs committed genocide. Do you celebrate them?
I didn't realize that the Aztecs were the only indigenous people.
All humans were pieces of shit back then. Judging them by today's standards is bullshit.
You know that even Columbus' contemporaries condemned him, right?
https://www.telegram.com/story/news/local/north/2008/10/18/columbus-was-cruel-exploiter-great/52228974007/
Yes. He still did something that changed the face of the world forever.
So did Hitler. Let's give him a holiday too.
One of the most false equivalences I've seen in a while.
All humans committed atrocities...
No, they haven't.
Every group of people have murdered someone from another group of people.
Also not true. You'll need to be more specific. Every individual person has not committed atrocities and neither has every group of people. Once you start getting into governments of countries you might be getting somewhere.
It's not Aztecs Day, ya goober.
That's Thursday, nimbus.
I AM MISTER NIMBUS!!
That's today. They deliberately tried to make an indigenous people's day because they didn't want Columbus Day. We still have Columbus Day today.
Backwards people might still have a columbus day, those of us in 2023 celebrate IPD instead
My people celebrate "huh? We have Monday off next week? Nice."
We celebrate it several times a year.
Which was a total cop-out.
You don’t reform by renaming Evil Guy Day to Victims Day.
You drop it from the calendar to make outcasts of anyone who still celebrates the guy.