i still respect columbus
because...
1) i share a name with him
2) i share a nationality with him
3) i am against the "liberal" ay of thinking, where everyone should be able to say what they want, as long as it doesn't conflict with their views. i love watching anti-war protests with violent protesters, that hipocrisy marks a democrat (liberal in america) like a blazing light.
4) if illegal immigrants can haev thei own holiday and people with "alternative lifestyles" (those bundlles of sticks...) can have their own holiday, italians can have their holiday, no matter what they want o call it.
5) Columbus didn't know that his diseases would decimate the indian population. He worked them like slaves were used at the time, they were just weaker than the africans he was used to. if u wanna blame people for disease warfare, point at the british that gave indians smallpox infested blankets in the 1700's
6) if the indians were as technilogcally superior as the europeans were, they probably would have done the sme
7) lots of murderers are praised around the world, i'm not saying columbus is one of them though. pancho villa ( i think that is his name) raided texaas, killingmany, adn eventually too over the mexican govt for a day, and he is celebrated.
in summary.... HAPPY COLUMBUS DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
you really can't compare people in two different eras. If you, every leader in the past was a tyrant... etc, becasue they ALL did things that would be deplorable by today's stndards. and remember, there were three parts of the slave trade.... the plantatins they were used at, the transporters, and the african nations that sold them
and also, we have been "lied to" aout every figure in hstory, especial in early school. They don't say "george washington was evil becase he owed slaves" in elementry school, they say he was a founding father adn the first president. ( i love washington, seriousely), adn tehy don't go into how well hitler turned around germany ( i like him too, besides the
STUPID SH!T he did to the "inferior races"), they jsut say he killed jews and started WWII and was evil
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