[Hugin]

The great Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa asked the right question: "What would America be like in the 1990s if the dominant cultures were those of the Aztecs and Incas?" The answer is a thankful "Don't ask." So the beating Columbus has taken recently may be deserved, but only in the details.

What contradictory nonsense. Clearly the world (particularly the New World) is better off for the introduction of Western Civilization. The left as usual has focused exclusively on the warts of Western Civ while ignoring those of the rest of the world. They judge Western Civ by contempory liberal standards, while deeming criticism of other cultures as racist. What they ignore is that slavery and persecution have been the norm in every society in the world until a bunch of dead white guys invented freedom and human rights.

[MrNeutron1962]

Absolutely, I just love this, All Cultures Are Equal, tripe that is bandied about by the loony left. Lets see, we have a culture with a priest/ruling class, human sacrifice, and slavery of conquered peoples. Just imagine what that must have been like, and what it would be like if it was still here.

Now, Columbus’s culture did still have absolute monarchs, repressive churches, and slavery; the changes that would eliminate many of these conditions were also still hundreds of years away. Unfortunately, the two worlds were more alike than different. I do believe that this would not have changed in the new world on its own, and we all know that it did change for the better in the Old World.