[reaganaut1]

Many people like to show how sensitive and noble they are by tearing down famous people in American history.

[Tanniker Smith]

Not even the two Italian kids were defending Columbus in class the other day when I brought it up.

Got a problem with the word "discover", okay, no problem.
Got a problem with the "discovery" itself, you have a big problem, kids. Almost wanted to call them fools for being taken in. Doesn't matter if the Chinese, Vikings or the Celts had been here before that, the history of the World changed with Columbus's voyage. That's all there is to it.

[LottieDah]

FYI, Christopher Columbus was not Captain Stubing and his ships were not the “Love Boat”, “The Good Ship Lollypop” and “The Queen Mary”. Most sailors in those times were not exactly model citizens. Captains of ships in those days were taskmasters and were sometimes cruel as were the members of their crews. How can teachers justify judging Columbus in the late 1400s by 21st century standards?

[reg45]

"You don't hear people using the world "discovery" anymore like they used to. "Columbus discovers America." Because how could he discover America if there were already people living here?"

How about Reunification Day? The lands of the western hemisphere were reunified with the lands of the eastern hemisphere.

[Non-Sequitur]

I’m betting that nowhere in these lessons is anything about how the Aztecs who were living in the Americas when Columbus and the evil Europeans landed probably got where they were by conquering and slaughtering who ever happened to be living there before the Aztecs came.

[khnyny]

You forgot the BARF alert.

Happy Columbus Day.

[Jack Hammer]

American kids are being trained by communist cadres and Useful Idiots to despise their nation, which results in a-holes like Obama getting elected.

This article is a case in point.

[humblegunner]

''And we talked about how he was very, very mean, very bossy.''

Oh, what a pity. He got-er-done, that's the point.

[RetiredArmy]

The LIBERAL Re-writing of our American History continues. Shortly the mean old soldiers of WWII will have invaded France and destroyed the lovable Uncle Adolph and his little friends.

[Travis McGee]

"fourth-grade students at Fort Cherry Elementary put Columbus on trial this year -- charging him with misrepresenting the Spanish crown and thievery. They found him guilty and sentenced him to life in prison."

Getting that white self-hatred down early.

[wardaddy]

my nine year old gave them hell over the teacher’s emphasis that Columbus took slaves yada yada

[Rastus]

''You don't hear people using the world 'discovery' anymore like they used to. 'Columbus discovers America.' Because how could he discover America if there were already people living here?''

Simple. He discovered it for the West. There may be people living on a planet in another solar system right now, but we won't know that until we "discover" the planet.

"We didn't discover Zibonius! There were already people there!"

[gdc314]

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Same Guy? Pink Zebra?

[Coleus]

The Crimes of Christopher Columbus

[anglian]

“Kids Study the Dark Side of Columbus” - “The whole terminology has changed” because the purpose of history is not actually to teach history—silly you! The point of this lesson is to indoctrinate little kids into the dogma of the left. This is their first taste of political correctness, and it won’t be the last.”
A good DrSanity post that should be read by all, here. http://drsanity.blogspot.com/

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[agrace]

Another reason to homeschool ping.

I just covered Columbus and the new world with my 3rd grader. Guess I need to reteach the mean and bossy part.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Although it was Indigenous Piffle Day, our local library was open. I went over there and inspected the shelves where they put the timely and seasonal stuff. They are diligent about having something relevant there for every possible holiday or season.
They have Kwanzaa materials, and the white population of the town is about 99%.

So. Did I see anything about Columbus, or Western Civ, or the great age of exploration?

Of course not.

[metmom]

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[Tired of Taxes]

I refuse to sign up for the NYT, so I can’t read the rest of the article. But, imagine any other group criticized for the diseases they brought with them.

Recently, a doctor was trying to convince me to vaccinate my children more, and she told me that more diseases are becoming prevalent in the U.S. again because they are being carried here by immigrants. I’ll bet these teachers in the excerpt above would never mention that in their classes, though. If they did, they sure wouldn’t advocate stopping or slowing the immigration here - not even the illegal immigration.

[christianhomeschoolmommaof3]

LOL! Columbus discovering America is insulting to the native people of America? He didn’t discover it for them. He discovered it for Europe which had no prior knowledge of it’s existence. If a native American had sailed across the sea and discovered Spain, I don’t think the Spanish would mind that he was given credit for it. It was a great accomplishment in those days.