> Columbus enslaved, colonized, mutilated, and massacred thousands of Indigenous People in the Americas. <
And before that, Indigenous People enslaved, colonized, mutilated, and massacred thousands of other Indigenous People in the Americas.
So perhaps the holiday should be named ‘Nobody Was Nice Back Then Day’.
> Columbus enslaved, colonized, mutilated, and massacred thousands of Indigenous People in the Americas. <
Gee he must have had quite and army on those three ships.
“And before that, Indigenous People enslaved, colonized, mutilated, and massacred thousands of other Indigenous People in the Americas.”
You left off cannibalizing. There were some Indian tribes, particularly in the region of modern Florida, that lived entirely on the meat from human bodies of the tribes they defeated in battle.
Throughout the Americas there were “indigenous” people who engaged in the most horrific and barbaric human rights abuses imaginable. Columbus’ travels resulted in civilization coming (returning) to the Americas.
Most of these kinds of abuses were eliminated or at least driven underground by Christian society. As the West abandons Christianity, a lot of these same kinds of abuses have been gradually coming out in the open again: ritual murder, ritual torture, sex slavery, etc.