Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Why Do People Hate or Denigrate Columbus?
Canada Free Press ^ | 10/12/15 | Jim Yardley

Posted on 10/12/2015 7:35:28 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony

It’s not because he was the “first”, but because his voyage has proven to be the most significant and historically altering

My wife and I were watching a show on the History Channel about who was really the first to discover America. Why? First, we both love shows that get us to think “Wow, I never knew that.” Second, I always start with the hope that the show will puncture some educational pomposity.

Luckily for us, both my chance to say “Gee, I didn’t know that” AND watch some of the pomposity of our liberal leaning educators exposed was achieved.

Anyone with the slightest level of intelligence must have realized that it couldn’t have been Columbus who “discovered” America. Native Americans (which actually weren’t native at all) “discovered” America sometime between 14,000 and 15,000 years ago when they walked across the Bearing Sea land bridge that formed a way to travel from Siberia to Alaska and then spread throughout the then unpopulated western hemisphere.


TOPICS: Government; History; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: christophercolumbus; columbus; columbusday; godsgravesglyphs; laraza; nativeamericans
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-50 next last
To: Sean_Anthony

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.


21 posted on 10/12/2015 8:58:34 AM PDT by discostu (Up-Up-Down-Down-Left-Right-Left-Right B, A, Start)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: OrangeHoof

Because none of the beer companies saw the opportunity.


22 posted on 10/12/2015 9:00:19 AM PDT by discostu (Up-Up-Down-Down-Left-Right-Left-Right B, A, Start)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: Lorianne
One of the times we were in the Dominican Republic, we took a tour of the old city. Our tour guide said that they were, overall, grateful - the Spanish invaders brought Christianity, which stopped the pagan practices of head hunting and infant and child sacrifice. The United States, under Kennedy, brought them a new style of government.

It is sad that the Spaniards thought there was gold on the island of Hispaniola, and worked the Taino to extinction in the mines.

There is a museum to Columbus, for which the roof is designed with a huge cross of skylights. When lit from within, it is said that the building is visible from space.

23 posted on 10/12/2015 9:02:02 AM PDT by knittnmom (Save the earth! It's the only planet with chocolate!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: Roman_War_Criminal

Excellent. And there’s a “youth” version as well.


24 posted on 10/12/2015 9:11:19 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: Sean_Anthony

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.


25 posted on 10/12/2015 9:12:17 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Restore Liberty!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sean_Anthony

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.


26 posted on 10/12/2015 9:21:29 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sean_Anthony
I'm going to pose a serious question that might sound odd

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....

27 posted on 10/12/2015 9:36:50 AM PDT by tophat9000 (King G(OP)eorge III has no idea why the Americans Patriots are in rebellion... teach him why)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sean_Anthony

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.


28 posted on 10/12/2015 9:41:45 AM PDT by Vinnie
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sean_Anthony
Very few people hate Columbus. But people tend to go overboard in trying to make him some sort of genius and hero.

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".

29 posted on 10/12/2015 10:02:21 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: VanDeKoik
the brown people couldn’t advance far enough culturally and technically to even venture 2 miles out into.

I guess they used worm holes to travel to the islands in the Caribbean?

30 posted on 10/12/2015 10:04:00 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: Sean_Anthony

I denigrate it because Ohio State is there.

Go Michigan!


31 posted on 10/12/2015 10:06:04 AM PDT by dfwgator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: dfwgator

I’m not a Michigan fan, but you have to give Harbaugh much credit. Perhaps he would like to be Trump’s VP?


32 posted on 10/12/2015 10:08:52 AM PDT by nascarnation
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies]

To: Sean_Anthony

As you state in your post, only the willfully ignorant would believe that Columbus “discovered” America. Columbus DID come to the New World and it was an historically significant event - no matter who was “first”. Chances are, in very ancient times, a people we’re not even aware of came to what is now the Americas. Not all “native” peoples walked across the Bering Land Bridge. There are far too many physical, cultural and linguistic differences between tribes of native peoples.

What came out in that show, albeit indirectly, was the arrogance of the modern archaeological community. The utter disregard of the oral history of native peoples doesn’t comport with the conclusions of the archaeological community, so they’re summarily pronounced wrong: The Cherokees must’ve built a fortification that appears to be Welsh, although Cherokee oral history indicates that it was built by “blue-eyed white people”; numerous linguistic, physical and cultural similarities between the Mandan peoples and the Welsh are merely coincidental; supposed similarities between the Japanese Jomon culture and Valdivians in Ecuador are “nonsense” and the list goes on.

All the ancient stories of the Chinese, Polynesians, Welsh, Irish, Norse, etc. coming to what is now the Americas are nothing more than legends. That is, until 1960, when L’Anse aux Meadows was discovered in Newfoundland. Modern archaeologists would have us believe that archaeology is an exact science, which it most certainly is not; “the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence” and not everything that fails to comport with your narrow conclusions and “settled science” has to be a fraud.


33 posted on 10/12/2015 10:11:34 AM PDT by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ManHunter

Well stated.

Indubitably, the Western World, all those powers which controlled the world uncontested in the 15th century, did not know of the New World, until the discovery of Christopher Columbus.

The later actions by the Conquistadors, advanced their empire by conquering their adversaries. The Catholic Church condoned the actions as part of their domain over the world from their perspective.


34 posted on 10/12/2015 10:29:36 AM PDT by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 33 | View Replies]

To: Cvengr
I just had someone tell me the Vikings discovered America. lol
35 posted on 10/12/2015 11:22:52 AM PDT by angcat
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 34 | View Replies]

To: Sean_Anthony
Because he was a redneck who came over to the "new world" where Spanish-speaking Roman Catholics had been living for seven hundred bazillion years and defiled their Sacred Mystical Motherland with his foul caucasian feet.

Those three double-wides he sailed should have sunk in mid-Atlantic![/sarcasm]

36 posted on 10/12/2015 11:24:09 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (The "end of history" will be Worldwide Judaic Theocracy.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Arm_Bears

I like the way you think.


37 posted on 10/12/2015 11:35:16 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: Sean_Anthony
Bearing Sea

Bering

38 posted on 10/12/2015 11:39:18 AM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sean_Anthony

Speculation is a wonderful toy.


39 posted on 10/12/2015 11:43:38 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sean_Anthony

Hatred of Western Civ and white people is on the uptick


40 posted on 10/12/2015 11:54:13 AM PDT by Chickensoup (We lose our freedoms one surrender at a time)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-50 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson