A better play would be about going back in time to slit Karl Marx’s throat.
I’m looking forward to the taxpayer-funded play imagining going back in time to assassinate Karl Marx.
NEA - Time for them to go!
A better one would be going back in time and catching MLK in the act of plagiarizing his PhD thesis.
If Columbus hadn’t discovered it someone else eventually would. It would have given the Indians more time to kill one another.
I get tired of hearing all the crap about how the Indians were so peaceful and loving. They were not much different than other cultures. Loved their own and killed other tribes.
The founder of my college, Dr. Warren Carroll, was a historian and an active member of the group trying to get Columbus canonized. The goofs would not have liked him.
Columbus was a contractor for the Hispanic conquest of the Americas.
This aggrieved group will have to take up their grievance with that aggrieved group. They can then compare grievances.
Ok so you kill Columbus, not like there were any other explorers. smh...
The NEA needs to go away.
Who capitalizes “indigenous”?
Had American aborigines the political organization and ships, they would just as naturally have attempted the conquest of Europe.
This latest bit is just more primitivism.
Had there been no Colmunbus, do folks really believe America would have lain undiscovered and unexploited by Europeans forever after?
If the whites left the natives alone, America would likely resemble Africa today:
Different tribes gunning each other down with cheap modern weapons. Famines and no infrastructure due to the endless wars
Why don’t we kill off Karl Marx instead?
We’d save 60m off the top by averting stalin and lenin
and the progressive push for abortion wouldn’t exist... so there’s another 55m
Plus all the wars based around communism and the ideologies pushing left... which includes fascism (Nazism). Maybe ww2 wouldn’t have happened
Well then, how about conferring “citizen of the world” status on the illegals, without granting any of the things that go with the status of being a citizen of the USA, such as voting or anything else that came from Columbus’ arrival forward?
... not on the enumerated list in Article 1 Section 8.
Next?
....and that would have hidden the western hemisphere for eternity, allowing the locals to to continue butchering each other for a piece of land.
Even if someone went back in time to murder Columbus, it wouldn’t have made any difference.
I’ve occasionally contemplated what would have happened if his ships had been destroyed by a hurricane ... it was, after all, prime hurricane season in the Atlantic.
Sooner or later, someone else would have gotten the idea of sailing west to get to India/China, and discovered there was a new unknown land mass in the way, and history would have progressed from that point.
Remember, that’s our dime.
Libs are nothing but hateful.
These idiots need a history lesson. Assassinating Columbus would not have prevented European explorers from reaching the Americas. Columbus was not even the first European to do so; the Vikings had reached Canada over 400 years earlier. Their colony did not survive and lead to widespread European settlement of the New World, but the tales of Viking exploration were known in Europe.
Also, contrary to the myth that’s been promulgated, nobody in 15th Century Europe with any kind of education seriously thought the world is flat. Columbus was not some pioneering visionary fighting a bunch of unenlightened flat-earthers. To the contrary, it was actually the consensus opinion that was right and Columbus who was wrong. Columbus set sail westward to reach the Orient because he severely underestimated the size of the earth. Prevailing opinion on the earth’s size was pretty accurate. Ships of the time could never have completed the journey from Europe to the Orient even if the Americas were not in the way. Columbus had just about reached the limit of his range when his ships found land in the Caribbean.
Thatwas the true reason that European monarchs were reluctant to sponsor Columbus. They thought the voyage too unlikely to succeed. Spain’s monarchs though were thwarted by Portugal on the route around Africa to India. They likely had also heard tales of lands to the west from African peoples encountered during earlier exploration. (There is some evidence for pre-Columbian contact between west Africa and Brazil). They were therefore willing to gamble on Columbus finding unknown land to the west. It was not an utter shock when these lands were found.
Had Columbus not proposed his voyage, it is nearly certain that later explorers would have found the New World. There were inklings that it existed, both Spain and Portugal (and later France, England, and Holland) had both the ability and the desire to find and settle new land.
It would just have been a matter of time before another explorer did what Columbus did, although the pattern of exploration may well have bern altered. An Rnglish expedition to find the old Viking lands may well have led to the first discoveries taking place in Canada or New England. A Portuguese ship rounding Africa may have gotten blown off course and landed in Brazil. Regardless, the Americas would have been explored and conquered even had Columbus never lived.