500 Years Later: Kochi’s Silence On Vasco Da Gama’s Death Anniversary

https://www.vibesofindia.com/500-years-later-kochis-silence-on-vasco-da-gamas-death-anniversary/ ^ | 12/24/2024

[ThanhPhero]

The values of today are NOT the values of 1500 or of times BC. Those who would impose disintegrating modern values on premodern times prefer to erase history and thereby lies the fast path to valueless tyranny.

[Jimmy Valentine]

Interesting to note that Vasco Da Gama was a member of the Knights Templar who financed and greatly profited from his explorations. They had changed their name to “The Order of Christ” but they were the same.

[Larry Lucido]

Nah, the last explorer who fell into it just named it the Big Babbling Brook and went on his way.

[Tommy Revolts]

I knew it. It’s the Portuguese that owe reparations for their slave trade and stealing the land from indigenous people.

[Borges]

You’re joking I hope.

[higgmeister]

Military conquest and use of superior firepower to subjugate a civilization and force conversion by the sword or “blasphemy” laws” is wrong irrespective of the age it was committed. We are seeing the same behavior today.

Would you also go off on finding that one of your nth great grandmothers was married at the age of 14?   Norms of today cannot be used to judge the mores of the past.   It's a fool's errand.

[ChessExpert]

He’s got my vote.

[SunkenCiv]

:^) Like they wouldn’t have found that anyway. ;^)

[Larry Lucido]

I always go around it! :)

[Bigg Red]

Mark

[libertarian66]

There was and is no way to coexist with prehistoric savages equivalent to 50,000 BC in their development. None. Nor is there a moral obligation to do so. When it is your people vs mine, there is no quarter given and none owed. Anything goes. They are lucky to even exist today. Had it been Islamic or Chinese civilization taming the Americas, the Indians would be extinct.

[SunkenCiv]

You probably use the gravelly road.

[Tommy Revolts]

/sarc