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!)
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.
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”.
Nah.
At best it’s semi-worth reading.
He was primarily an explorer and a merchant.
The hate holidays is absurd by both the liberals and faux Christians. Both groups SUCK!!!!!!!
bkmk
The left hates Columbus because he brought Christianity to America.
They won’t tell you that. Instead they say that Columbus brought death and enslavement.
Columbus Day ping.
**We may also celebrate the advent of Christianity in the New World which did much to mitigate the more brutal aspects of both the European and the indigenous American civilizations as they collided in the 16th century. **
We can thank Columbus for the first Catholic Mass in the western hemisphere.
One thing people forget/don’t realize is that Columbus crossed the South Atlantic in three wooden boats during peak hurricane season; he’s lucky his three boats weren’t turned into so much flotsam and jetsam.
And if, in fact, that fate had befallen him, and he was “lost at sea”, eventually, someone else would have had the idea “Hey ... I bet I could get to China by sailing west...”.
The New World was destined to be discovered by the Europeans; it was only a matter of time.