Posted on 10/10/2021 11:35:16 PM PDT by blueplum
Monuments to Christopher Columbus are regularly vandalized throughout the Americas, but Spain remains faithful to his memory. Last week, I visited Seville Cathedral, where his supposed remains are carried shoulder-high by massive statues representing the kings of Castille, Leon, Navarre, and Aragon....
...The anniversary of his reaching the New World, Oct. 12, is Spain’s national day. The only concession to modern sensibilities is that it is now known as the Día de la Hispanidad rather than the Día de la Raza. Seville’s Plaza de España is connected to the Plaza de America by streets named after Hernan Cortes and Francisco Pizarro, who respectively conquered the Aztecs and the Incas.
The ideology of inherited grievance and identity politics has burst its American levees and flooded the rest of the Anglosphere, but, so far, the sea walls of Europe are holding. ...
...The English-speaking peoples evince a peculiar compulsion to apologize for their overseas victories — a compulsion not much shared by Arabs or Portuguese or Russians or Turks or Italians. When it comes to self-criticism, only the Germans give us a run for our money.
Why should that be? Is it some curious manifestation of Protestant guilt? Is it that Anglosphere universities, unusually, remove students from their families and their hometowns, leaving them in each other’s company and making them unusually vulnerable to purity spirals and silly ideas? Or is it simply that everyone loves an underdog and the English-speaking peoples are almost never underdogs?....
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Spain’s favorite explorer was born in Genova Italy and is Italian by blood. More properly Genovan since Italy didn’t exist in the 1400s Genova was a powerful city State like Venice was. He was funded originally by the powerful Doria family who were in competition with the Venetian Medici family for trade dominance in the Med. They funded his route West to avoid the rival Medici family to the east who demanded tributes to pass their territory and waters.
Why should Spain despise it’s greatest explorer? Because he was Italian.
Spain treats Liberals and progressives like everybody should: never explain, never apologize, just ignore them.
Spain is a land of great lovers. Columbus wasn’t Spanish, and he introduced syphilis to Europe. Sure he also brought tobacco and tomatoes, but the clap? That is a disgrace.
Where did Columbus get syphilis? Was if from a Lucayan woman on the Island of Guanahani, which Columbus renamed San Salvador?
“Is it some curious manifestation of Protestant guilt?”
Nope. Not just a protestant thing when Pope Francis has become a leading member of the Let-me-apologize-for-the-greatness-of-my-predecessors Club.
Good morning on this Indig day..Celebrate indignation all around all...kind of like the Steinfeld show Festivus, a listing of grievances
That’s my participatory rant and I’m sticking to it.
;>)
1492: The year the Indians discovered they needed a wall.
H/T to FReeper redmen4ever, from whom I stole this gem
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“Is it some curious manifestation of Protestant guilt?”
Some people today just WANT the guilt trip of their ancestors doing something bad.
If you prove their self styled guilt trip is misplaced they hate you even more.
The Real Reason — Columbus brought Catholicism to the western world.
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