Posted on 10/09/2023 5:52:08 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
Should we or shouldn’t we celebrate Columbus day? Every year the debate rages around this time whether the expansion of European civilization into the western hemisphere was a positive or negative development in human history.
Of course Columbus himself was a complex figure, and there is much to love or hate about him depending on one’s point of view. The leftward side of the debate points out Columbus’s greed, ambition, pride and at times cruelty.
And yet on the other side , one must admire the bravery, tenacity, and Columbus’ willingness to venture at great risk. Columbus also had a pious side to him, for he felt he was part of a greater purpose than his own ambition. He believed he was fulfilling the Words of the Hebrew prophets of the Bible in his voyages.
But obviously Columbus day isn’t merely about Columbus ,it’s really about western civilisation, and it’s expansion among the native peoples of the western hemisphere. That historical fact can either be seen as a breakthrough or as an appalling injustice.
All of this annual back and forth has come to us courtesy of multiculturalism, the philosophy that has flourished in our education system for at least forty years.
This post-modern doctrine holds that all cultures are equally valid, and that one culture’s ‘narrative’ is as good as the other. Worldviews are just ‘narratives’, viewpoints, all equally valid, because MultiCulturalism is radical relativism.
The idea that all cultures are equal sounds good to the naive idealist, but it couldn’t be true. All cultures are not equal, some are positively toxic and a good many have been wiped out because they were unsustainable,(Sodom and Gomorrah come to mind).
Multiculturalism is a dangerous fantasy, because it is in reality a veiled assault on Western civilization, relentlessly working to invalidate the incredible accomplishments of the West, scientifically,socially, culturally and otherwise.
The latest standard bearer of Western Civilization has primarily been the United States of America, for the last eighty years at least.
Therefore the history of the USA has to be ‘deconstructed’, through a toxic process of revisionist history , exaggerating the flaws and sins of the past, minimising the accomplishments, and holding our ancestors to modern-day standards of thought and behaviour.
The real beef the Multi-culturists have is with Christianity. The west was the flourishing place for at least the last thousand years for the development of Christianity, therefore Western civilisation is the ‘perpetual bad guy’ in the retelling of world history.
To the Devotees of MC, the West’s astonishing progress and the elevation in standards of living she has brought to the rest of the world, must have come at the expense of the third World, or the Moslem world.
Multiculturalism is really an Expression of AntiChrist, and its problem is with God himself. It is AntiChrist because it retells the story of the Garden of Eden and the fall.
The Third world was Eden, until the evil Europeans came to colonize . Never mind that the Tribes of the world have slaughtered, subjugated and enslaved and exploited each other ever since Adam and Eve fell.
To those raised on relentless propaganda such as Disney’s Pocahantas, or the recent fantasy, Avatar, the third world , and pre-Columbian North and South America, was a giant, peace-loving Eden, until the Europeans came to despoil it.
In the final analysis Multi-Culturalists are resenting the Sovereignty of God.God moves in the affairs of nations, Power belongs to Him, he gives and takes away,raises and elevates for his own good purpose.
And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation:And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?(Daniel 4:34-35)
The same God who raised up the United States of America, and used Columbus to discover it, allowed Europeans to colonize it, and drive the Indians further west, Is now judging the United States and the rest of the European nations, in short the West for their sins.
It’s about God, and his Lordship over History. Those who cry loud and long about Slavery, (abolished 150 years ago, after the bloodiest War the USA ever had),never seem to mention that Slavery was the rule in Africa, Asia, the Muslim world, and the rest of the world for Millenia. Only the West, Britain and America insisted on its demise and that at great cost.
As good Multiculturists, they are selective about History, rarely mentioning that at the height of the slave trade there were European slaves in Africa, 3000 black slave holders in the South, and that Muslim slave traders have been bartering with tribal chieftains in Africa for centuries , trading in human lives!
Resenting history is big business now, it is being used to divide people, to stop the healing of ancient wounds and to deny the accomplishments of decent and well-meaning people, for with people of conscience and decency, Guilt is a great tool of manipulation.But that same God of history sees and is taking note. Happy Columbus day everybody!
Well said.
Amen 🙏🏻!
How about the fact that none of these ingrates would be alive today to celebrate the supposed better non-Columbus world? He made that much of a difference. Someone else would have eventually settled the western hemisphere, but that would have been a different world that we would not be a part of. Few people have affected world history to that extent.
Please keep celebrating! No one comes to work, and that means we get maintenance downtime to complete work.
Leave it up to Americans. We’ll celebrate Columbus Day and everyone else can celebrate whatever the hell they want. Hamas might work for some of them. Garland’s Department of Jesters might work for others.
Many Democrat run crap-hole cities are celebrating indigenous peoples day. They have ditched Columbus day for sure. They can’t do jack for their cities, with homeless and druggies out in the streets, but they sure can virtue signal.
The First Columbus Day Arose From Bloodshed and Political Calculation
https://orderisda.org/culture/stories/the-first-columbus-day-arose-from-bloodshed-and-politics/
War was on the table between the U.S. & Italy after 11 Italian immigrants were lynched in New Orleans in 1891. The diplomatic crisis cooled thanks to the first Columbus Day, and what followed was a cultural celebration built on inclusion & assimilation.
The Columbus Circle statue was unveiled on Oct. 13, 1892, at the foot of Central Park in New York City. It was built to appease the Italian American community during a period of unflinching discrimination. NYC council members now want to tear it down.
On March 14, 1891, prominent New Orleans citizens — including future mayors and governors — led the largest lynch mob ever to assemble on U.S. soil.
Numbering in the tens of thousands and wielding torches, rifles and rope, the mob of vigilantes stormed into Parish Prison and murdered 11 Italian immigrants, all of whom had either just been acquitted or were falsely implicated in the 1890 murder of New Orleans Police Chief David Hennessy.
The victims included:
–Antonio Bagnetto, fruit peddler: tried and acquitted
–James Caruso, stevedore: not tried
–Loreto Comitis, tinsmith: not tried
–Rocco Geraci, stevedore: not tried
–Joseph Macheca, fruit importer and Democratic Party political boss: tried and acquitted
–Antonio Marchesi, fruit peddler: tried and acquitted
–Pietro Monasterio, cobbler: mistrial
–Emmanuele Polizzi, street vendor: mistrial
–Frank Romero, ward politician: not tried
–Antonio Scaffidi, fruit peddler: mistrial
–Charles Traina, rice plantation laborer: not tried
Mob conspirators claimed that mafia influence swayed jurors, despite no evidence; and according to History.com, the court proceedings surrounding Chief Hennessy’s murder marked the genesis of Italian American mafia tropes that persist today (from boorish Saturday Night Live sketches, to Hollywood’s repetitive stereotypes).
Celebrate it.
If we didnt come here the Indians would still be massacre-ing each other with primitive tools and being seasonally nomadic. And would have been totally conquered by eastern societies.
Tribal/nomadic peoples that do not establish cities do not progress far compared to those that do. You need a stable base of operations from which to make technical leaps and progress.
We should use liberals to celebrate holidays like the pre Columbian savages.
Columbus was not an American. Americans should be about Americans.
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American holidays.
Like Amerigo Vespucci.
If the paleface had never come to this continent, the indigenous people to this day would still be living in teepees as hunter-gatherers just as their ancestors had before them.
Happy Columbus Day everyone. I do notice that those who hate Western Civilization sure don’t want to give up modern conveniences brought about by Western Civilization.
Unfortunately for them. Too bad.
So do I. Hypocrisy, thy name is leftism.
It’s Columbus Day.
Too many people have too much time on their hands and need to get over themselves if this is the biggest issue in their lives to worry about.
To get a perspective on this subject read Guns, Germs, and Steel. You will then have the answer to the question of why the Aztecs never invaded Europe.
If the American Indians want their own day they should not hijack Columbus Day but form their own. They have two days that they can call their own.
August 20, 1680 when the Pueblo Revolt started, and June 25,1876 when they wiped out Custer’s command.
And had Columbus not discovered the blockage between Europe and China it would still have been found in 1500 by Pedro Álvares Cabral who found Brazil.
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