Posted on 10/13/2019 8:00:58 PM PDT by Antoninus
Ping for later. All I know is you will not meet Latinos in Colombia who are thinking of switching their country’s name or giving back the Spanish language to Spain.
You will not meet Peruvians who think we need to return to the days of Incan baby sacrifices. In fact Peru may be the most pro-life country in the world.
This is a USA woke assault on history. (And Christianity!)
Yup. Anyone who advocates returning to the constant warfare, torture, human sacrifice, cannibalism and slavery that were aspects of pre-European indigenous life in the Americas is an lunatic, pure and simple.
Catholic ping.
Columbus deserves his fame. I am Choctaw and don’t begrudge him his one day of recognition.
Oldplayer
(Choctaw)
For later reading.
Columbus day is worth observing if for no other reason than it marked the first time the entire world was really connected. It’s not a story of conquest, it’s a story of connectivity. Leif Ericsson and other Vikings may have landed in North America and explored it’s coast, but it didn’t trigger anything like the Columbian exchange.
The Columbian exchange changed the world. We know when it happened, we know who did it. Columbus may not have been special in that someone else would have eventually done the same thing, but it was Columbus and he can’t be extricated from the event. Other hinge moments in history don’t have this amount of evidence and clarity.
Columbus had his flaws and there were plenty of negatives from European colonization , but there were also and continue to be plenty of positives. The fact is that somebody from Europe was going to discover America eventually, with a lot of the same results, and I’ll bet that person would have been demonized as Columbus has been. It is normal, but a mistake, for us to judge people from 500 years ago by the our standards, and more than a little blind and hypocritical considering the barbarity we have seen unleashed on the world in the last century, including in our present time.
Replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day is an attack on our civilization. It says none of us have a right to be here. Funny, since I’ll bet that most of the Columbus Day foes are proponents of a borderless America.
I’m not sure we should give Columbus any honors. After all, unlike his critics, he wasn’t prefect.
Video at site run time: 9 minutes 23 seconds.
Not until 1945 was an effective use of bioweapons contemplated. Occupation searchers uncover large stockpiles of viruses, spirochetes, and fungus spores throughout rural Japan. These biological pathogens had already been tested on several hundred thousand people in Chinese villages and on prisoners of war. Civilian militias were to stay behind advancing Americans to infuse pathogens into food and waters sources, to release infected animals and insects into American compounds, and to infect themselves with choleras and plaque germs.
Slavery would have been progressive social reformation to the New World. Tribes like the Aztecs slaughtered thousands in sacrifices to their gods. The Caribs killed and ate members of other tribes but brought the women to their villages. Here they were impregnated, and their babies roasted as a delicacy.
Looks like a great article. I put a copy in my copy of “The Log of Christopher Columbus”.
Agreed.
We refuse to teach this to our children anymore.
The importance of these events to world history are profound, yet we willfully try to forget they ever happened.
Nah.
At best it’s semi-worth reading.
He was primarily an explorer and a merchant.
Aw snap. I was going to say something about how it is important to study history in context rather than strictly through a modern lens, but I think you nailed it better than I could have.
Columbus Day Ping!
The hate holidays is absurd by both the liberals and faux Christians. Both groups SUCK!!!!!!!
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