Columbus. Good or bad?

[Harpy Eagle]

What do you think?

Here is a non-American take on it.

Happy Columbus Day - A Very Controversial Holiday - Newsroom Panama

Columbus Day is a national holiday in many countries of the Americas and elsewhere, and...

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[Picaro]

Aztec capitol was larger and more clean than any European city in 1520.

Azteca was as brutal as Europeans in their daily lives, yes.

State execution of religious dissenters was a form of mass murder. European warriors often as a small piece of their defeated enemy to take his courage. Both practiced slavery.

You think man en masse can be more moral and noble than other human societies. Who and where?

lol you have a rich fantasy life.

In other news, the Spaniards had zero problems finding hundreds of thousands of allies among the neighbors of the cannibal butchers. Pretty much the same in North America om a smaller scale. You could hire entire tribes to murder anybody for a few kegs of booze and some beads, no problem.

 

[Picaro]

The English were brutal toward native groups. American colonials were worse.

The British were no harder on natives than they were on themselves. You're just a sniveling racist, is all.

 

[Blaster]

The British are snobbish. I have no desire to visit England again.

 

[ESay]

The British were no harder on natives than they were on themselves. You're just a sniveling racist, is all.

Not exactly true. Above, a right thing was written about a percentage of the Natives/mestizos in former British colonies and Spanish ones.

 

[Moonglow]

What do you think?

He did not discover North America.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

lol you have a rich fantasy life.

In other news, the Spaniards had zero problems finding hundreds of thousands of allies among the neighbors of the cannibal butchers. Pretty much the same in North America om a smaller scale. You could hire entire tribes to murder anybody for a few kegs of booze and some beads, no problem.

You are not a scholar, so obvious. You could do the same with the Germanic warriors on the Roman frontier in 0 CE.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

The British were no harder on natives than they were on themselves. You're just a sniveling racist, is all.

A Picaro accusation is almost always a Picaro confession of inadequacy.

 

[Zebra]

Here is a non-American take on it.

Happy Columbus Day - A Very Controversial Holiday - Newsroom Panama

Columbus Day is a national holiday in many countries of the Americas and elsewhere, and...

newsroompanama.com

no discovery!

 

[Picaro]

Not exactly true. Above, a right thing was written about a percentage of the Natives/mestizos in former British colonies and Spanish ones.

You know little of British history then. The aristocrats were brutal to everybody, regardless of color. Same as feral native savages.

 

[Picaro]

A Picaro accusation is almost always a Picaro confession of inadequacy.

Your silly defenses of feral savagery is typical of people who rightfully feel guilty about their cultural and moral inferiority compared to Europeans. The savages still need to rely on White charity merely to survive hence they try to peddle the mythology they were all hapless victims of evil white racism, when in fact they are the racists and Didn't Play Well With Others. We always had plenty of tribes willing to scout and ally with us against the more violent and feral predatory tribes, no shortage of enemies among natives.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Feral savagery? You are a mental something when it comes to history. The Catholic crusades against the Albigensian heresies in France easily matched the Aztecs ferocity.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

You know little of British history then. The aristocrats were brutal to everybody, regardless of color. Same as feral native savages.

Try that again. You sound confused.

 

[Picaro]

Feral savagery? You are a mental something when it comes to history. The Catholic crusades against the Albigensian heresies in France easily matched the Aztecs ferocity.

They probably shouldn't have started murdering priests. lol bet your propaganda sites didn't mention stuff like that, same with the Cathars.

 

[Picaro]

Try that again. You sound confused.

Not surprised you're confused; almost nothing positive to be said about Aztecs or most of the Tribes in the Southwest.

 

[ESay]

You know little of British history then. The aristocrats were brutal to everybody, regardless of color. Same as feral native savages.

At least their didn't purposefully eliminate their own population.

 

[dblack]

What do you think?

Peter Falk's best work.

 

[August West]

Chris took home 2 souvenir human beings for show and tell time. He raided the gift shop.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

They probably shouldn't have started murdering priests. lol bet your propaganda sites didn't mention stuff like that, same with the Cathars.

The Cathars defended themselves, of course. They retaliated against the priests, of course. But, even so, that did not justify Crusader barbarism.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Not surprised you're confused; almost nothing positive to be said about Aztecs or most of the Tribes in the Southwest.

... because you don't know your history? OK.