They hate him because of his primary commission -
to spread the Gospel of Christ.
Because he won’t stop pimping his dang blog.
It goes back to the 1960s attack on traditional history, which actually accelerated in the “conservative” 1980s, when the popular Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr., chanted “Hey, ho, hey, ho, Western Civ’s got to go!”
And I keep seeing articles about town after town changing the day to American Indian day....
I hate PC
White, Christian male.
Does the author mean the Bahamas?
Bermuda is like 700 miles east of North Carolina, and a thousand miles north of Puerto Rico.
I hate it when Conservatives make a glaring error about history or science.
It gives the Left a wide open door to mock our alleged ignorance and to dismiss the basically sound argument the author was making.
It’s interesting that cities are replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Day because “the indigenous people here first”.
American, taxpaying citizens were “here first” over the hoards of illegal aliens but they ignore that.
Because a white guy managed to cross an ocean that the brown people couldn’t advance far enough culturally and technically to even venture 2 miles out into.
And that is evil in 2015, so we have to celebrate indigenous people day. People that haven’t even heard of a blasted wheel and barely knew what writing was.
Whenever people start bad-mouthing Columbus around me, my kids included, I ask them why they’re still in the US and when are they planning to leave.
Usually shuts them up.
By all accounts Columbus we a pretty brutal task-master, even for his time. However, that is probably what it took to have the guts to make such a voyage in the first place.
I hate it when people say Columbus brought genocide (meaning diseases) because in his day they did not know about germs and bacteria and viruses at all and had no way of knowing or predicting that the introduction of such things (which they didn’t know about) would kill so many people.
At the end of the day, people are just angry at history, as if that will change anything. Any number of bad things were done throughout history, mixed in with the good things ... which brought us to where we are today. Without all the stuff that happened before, both good and bad, we would not be here living as we do now. You can play What-If forever but it doesn’t change anything.
So people just have to accept that history is what it is. It is immutable. The ONLY direction we can go in is forward ... as it was in Columbus’ day, as it ever was and ever will be.
Why is it that, on St. Patrick’s Day, we Americans dress up in green, get drunk and do a bunch of Irish crap and, on Cinco De Mayo, we dress up in green and red, get drunk and do a bunch of Mexican crap but, on Columbus Day, we don’t dress up, get drunk and do a bunch of Italian crap?
White male Christian from the West.
Because his name is “Columbus” and not “Demetrius Shakira”.
It starts with the fact that he didn’t discover America, there’s a certain level of irritation that comes from learning your teachers lied to you for years. Then he became a symbol for everything that’s happened to Indians, none of which is really his fault but as the “discoverer” he’s easy to blame. Add into that our modern fondness for applying modern morality to historical times and really he’s doomed. The funny part is people probably care more about him now than ever. Used to be Columbus was just one of those no mail days that rolled by without most folks paying much attention. Now it’s huge, mostly people complaining, but still a much bigger deal.
The ironic thing is the ripples in time that would have happened if Colombus had not discovered America. All those idiots complaining about him would likely not even be alive, if something that significant had happened.
Chances are, none of us would exist and a whole different group of people would exist... along with another big group of whiners complaining about some other historical figure.
Because Columbus was the one who started bringing Christianity into the New World. The left hates Christianity and wants to stamp it out. It has demonized Columbus and blamed him for all the ills in the New World.
Could is be because Columbus was Italian and not Spanish (Hispanic)..he makes a perfect scapegoat to shield Hispanic culture from PC attack?
Columbus sailed under the Spanish flag.. and it was Spanish Conquistador that did all these things that our PC friends complain about.....
yet it never anything "Hispanic" that get any attack from our PC friends ....it fact "Hispanic" now co-opt the Native American/Indian identity....and its Columbus and then the English American that get all the PC blame....
Terrific book ‘Admiral of the Ocean Sea’ by Samuel Morison
Morison and crew research and retrace Columbus’ voyage. Using Columbus’ logs, diary, descriptions to determine where he landed and explored.
A fascinating book.
Gave me an admiration, appreciation of Christopher Columbus. The voyage was no small feat.
To do that they invent absurdities like he was trying to "prove that the world was round" which is silly as the fact the world was round was common knowledge.
When you point out that if there had been no America to run into Columbus would have gotten every one on his little expedition killed smoke pours out of their ears.
Don't even try to bring up his mistreatment of the Spanish colonists or the fact he was sent back to Spain in chains. (Isabella pardoned him.)
If you point out his mathematics as to the circumference of the world were worse then wrong and that this was a problem solved a couple of millennium before he was born they jump right back to "he was trying to prove the world was round".
I denigrate it because Ohio State is there.
Go Michigan!