[US_MilitaryRules]

Thank you Columbus!

[Lazamataz]

The only problem with Columbus is that he let some of them live.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

While I certainly don’t like the politically-correct, Liberal motives behind the assault on Columbus Day, I don’t view it as a sacrosanct holiday. It was popularized in the first half of the 19th Century. It has nothing to do with America per se. Columbus was no saint — he undertook a bold voyage that opened American to further European exploration but there is plenty of evidence that he was looking to get rich and was a dictatorial jerk to the people he ruled over when he was governor general. So if it goes away, it won’t bother me that much.

[geologist]

Common core does not teach America’s history or tell about the second World war or so I have been told. So Columbus may not be taught either. As well ... This is dangerous for our youths to not know our Constitution. To be taught it is old and not for today, is a turn in the wrong direction.

God help America stand for freedom and our way of life., in Jesus name, amen.

[NRA1995]

Hey, I’m indigenous, I was born here!

[FlingWingFlyer]

I really don’t understand this. Columbus came from Europe. He and his kind get a bad rap and are blamed for anything bad that the while liberals can come up with. Hispanics came from Europe and they are praised and treated like princes and princesses by the liberal gringos. I fail to see the difference. Columbus takes the rap for bringing “disease and greed.” The Hispanics were searching for the seven cities of gold and killed a lot of “indigenous peoples” in the process. What’s up with that?

[S.O.S121.500]

Had ENOUGH Yet ?

[foreverfree]

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[Radix]

One of the greatest things that has ever happened to improve the human condition for literally billions of people, was the ‘discovery’ of America by Columbus.

The world is untold times more improved, and if those explorers had stayed home or perished before October 1492, we would all still be living in filthy hovels, dying young, and wallowing in ignorance as if we were freaking Islamists.

[lentulusgracchus]

The Columbus detractors are IMNSHO Communist cadres stirring up race hate and ethnic divisions, (which are real and meaningful) for grand-tactical and operational objectives of their own. Hollywood PC 'ers hated Mel Gibson' s Apocalypto precisely because it told some unpleasant truths about pre-Columbian Mayan civilization.