Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature currently requires accessing the site using the built-in Safari browser.
Did Columbus "deliberately" attempt to commit genocide? noWestern migration into the vast open spaces of the continental US- right?genocide [ˈjenəˌsīd] NOUN 1. the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.
"The only good Indian is a dead Indian"- right? Manifest Destiny! Right?
That's not to take away from what Columbus is famous for- but, white washing the past leads to forgetting the past- which creates new sayings- "the past is prologue", for instance- or, if you don't learn from History you're doomed to repeat it-
The absolute ignorance of people who have their minds made up for them is sad-
And you live so good because of him.Wow, you guys are really committed to a genocidal maniac...
Top 5 atrocities committed by Christopher Columbus
It’s difficult to think of a more perverse hero than Christopher Columbus, the Italian who led Europe’s first landing party in the Americas.rapidcityjournal.com
If captivity and death weren’t enough, Columbus and his men had a particular reputation for cruelty. Bartolome de las Casas, a young priest who participated in the conquest of Cuba and wrote a history of the Indies, describes the treatment of the natives: “Endless testimonies ... prove the mild and pacific temperament of the natives. ... But our work was to exasperate, ravage, kill, mangle and destroy; small wonder, then, if they tried to kill one of us now and then.... The admiral, it is true, was blind as those who came after him, and he was so anxious to please the King that he committed irreparable crimes against the Indians ...“ Las Casas describes how Spaniards rode on the backs of natives. How the Spaniards "thought nothing of knifing Indians by tens and twenties and of cutting slices off them to test the sharpness of their blades." Las Casas adds "two of these so-called Christians met two Indian boys one day, each carrying a parrot; they took the parrots and for fun beheaded the boys."
Considering what Europeans were doing to each other during times of war, it's not surprising they took advantage of technologically and politically inferior natives.
Remember this was still a time when non noble captured soldiers were killed off if they winning army didn't think they could get money for them, and sieged towns that did not surrender at the start were sacked and pillaged.
Top 5 atrocities committed by Christopher Columbus
It’s difficult to think of a more perverse hero than Christopher Columbus, the Italian who led Europe’s first landing party in the Americas.
If captivity and death weren’t enough, Columbus and his men had a particular reputation for cruelty. Bartolome de las Casas, a young priest who participated in the conquest of Cuba and wrote a history of the Indies, describes the treatment of the natives: “Endless testimonies ... prove the mild and pacific temperament of the natives. ... But our work was to exasperate, ravage, kill, mangle and destroy; small wonder, then, if they tried to kill one of us now and then.... The admiral, it is true, was blind as those who came after him, and he was so anxious to please the King that he committed irreparable crimes against the Indians ...“ Las Casas describes how Spaniards rode on the backs of natives. How the Spaniards "thought nothing of knifing Indians by tens and twenties and of cutting slices off them to test the sharpness of their blades." Las Casas adds "two of these so-called Christians met two Indian boys one day, each carrying a parrot; they took the parrots and for fun beheaded the boys."
Considering what Europeans were doing to each other during times of war, it's not surprising they took advantage of technologically and politically inferior natives.
Remember this was still a time when non noble captured soldiers were killed off if they winning army didn't think they could get money for them, and sieged towns that did not surrender at the start were sacked and pillaged.
AND it is worth noting, the Aztecs were conducting human sacrifice on an industrial scale.
Top 5 atrocities committed by Christopher Columbus
It’s difficult to think of a more perverse hero than Christopher Columbus, the Italian who led Europe’s first landing party in the Americas.
If captivity and death weren’t enough, Columbus and his men had a particular reputation for cruelty. Bartolome de las Casas, a young priest who participated in the conquest of Cuba and wrote a history of the Indies, describes the treatment of the natives: “Endless testimonies ... prove the mild and pacific temperament of the natives. ... But our work was to exasperate, ravage, kill, mangle and destroy; small wonder, then, if they tried to kill one of us now and then.... The admiral, it is true, was blind as those who came after him, and he was so anxious to please the King that he committed irreparable crimes against the Indians ...“ Las Casas describes how Spaniards rode on the backs of natives. How the Spaniards "thought nothing of knifing Indians by tens and twenties and of cutting slices off them to test the sharpness of their blades." Las Casas adds "two of these so-called Christians met two Indian boys one day, each carrying a parrot; they took the parrots and for fun beheaded the boys."
Considering what Europeans were doing to each other during times of war, it's not surprising they took advantage of technologically and politically inferior natives.
Remember this was still a time when non noble captured soldiers were killed off if they winning army didn't think they could get money for them, and sieged towns that did not surrender at the start were sacked and pillaged.
AND it is worth noting, the Aztecs were conducting human sacrifice on an industrial scale.
It just shows the value of human life at the time, which wasn't much.
Wow, you guys are really committed to a genocidal maniac...
..............
Any way of proving any of this to be true ? And even if it was, can it be shown that Columbus was guilty of it ?Top 5 atrocities committed by Christopher Columbus
It’s difficult to think of a more perverse hero than Christopher Columbus, the Italian who led Europe’s first landing party in the Americas.
If captivity and death weren’t enough, Columbus and his men had a particular reputation for cruelty. Bartolome de las Casas, a young priest who participated in the conquest of Cuba and wrote a history of the Indies, describes the treatment of the natives: “Endless testimonies ... prove the mild and pacific temperament of the natives. ... But our work was to exasperate, ravage, kill, mangle and destroy; small wonder, then, if they tried to kill one of us now and then.... The admiral, it is true, was blind as those who came after him, and he was so anxious to please the King that he committed irreparable crimes against the Indians ...“ Las Casas describes how Spaniards rode on the backs of natives. How the Spaniards "thought nothing of knifing Indians by tens and twenties and of cutting slices off them to test the sharpness of their blades." Las Casas adds "two of these so-called Christians met two Indian boys one day, each carrying a parrot; they took the parrots and for fun beheaded the boys."
read Howard Zinn's book, chapter 1Wow, you guys are really committed to a genocidal maniac...
Says the guy that cheers on the murder of 60 million African Americans at Planned Parenthood Extermination Camps.wow---a very historical and sensible reply
HAHAHHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHH
Well, I could point out how he was responsible for the genocide of hundreds of thousands of Arawak people on Hispaniola, but you've made it pretty clear you don't care about the lives of non-white people.
But you expect them to care about yours.
hahahahah--sure you can point it out, but can't prove it--because he wasn't responsible for that--you babble crap all the timewow---a very historical and sensible reply
HAHAHHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHH
Well, I could point out how he was responsible for the genocide of hundreds of thousands of Arawak people on Hispaniola, but you've made it pretty clear you don't care about the lives of non-white people.
But you expect them to care about yours.
Says the guy that cheers on the murder of 60 million African Americans at Planned Parenthood Extermination Camps.
thefederalist.com
thebluestateconservative.com
On Columbus Day in 1963, Trump marched up Fifth Avenue in New York’s parade
View attachment 400940
Donald Trump, second from left, in the1964 New York Military Academy yearbook. He is listed as Captain, s-3 Training Officer Trump. (Courtesy of NYMA)
Oct. 12, 2020 at 4:00 a.m. PDT
The future president was 17 years old. Blond hair, blue eyes, a strapping 6-foot-2 or 3. He wore a dapper military uniform: white-crowned cap emblazoned with a bald eagle, fully pressed blue uniform with badges and shiny buttons, pristine white gloves.
As the commanding officer of the drill team for the New York Military Academy, Donald John Trump stood on Fifth Avenue and 44th Street, the starting point of the Columbus Day Parade on Oct. 12, 1963.
The country was poised between the hope of the March on Washington, held 45 days prior, and the devastation of a presidential assassination in Dallas, 41 days ahead. It was a sunny afternoon, wind blowing out of the north, as the teenage Trump began marching uptown.
