Why is Christopher Columbus credited for discovering AMERICA?

[Hellbilly]

Columbus discovered America

Was anyone living here when he discovered it?

 

[Thunk]

So if somebody discovered God before me...I can't discover God as well?

We learn about columbus because it's OUR history.

- Columbus discovered America (there was land over here and the earth was not flat).

- The pilgrims followed columbus' path to the "new world".

- We descended from the pilgrims.

False/misleading quote from HELLBILLY.

You should be banned for that!

 

[Thunk]

Was anyone living here when he discovered it?

Yup...some nomadic war like barbarians. We took care of them in short order.

 

[Thunk]

So why do democrats strain themselves to discredit columbus?

Because they want to discredit the pilgrims...because THAT is the story of the failure of SOCIALISM!

The pilgrims all signed the "mayflower compact"...they would share everything in this new world.

If you grew a crop it belonged to everybody...if you built a house it belonged to everybody. By the end of the first winter over half of the pilgrims were dead.

They switched their system to ownership of private property (Capitalism) and in 1 year they had such an over abundance they were able to pay back all their loans for the voyage to the new world & still share food with the injuns at the first thanksgiving dinner

 

[Hellbilly]

Yup...some nomadic war like barbarians. We took care of them in short order.

You failed, fucker. We are still here.

 

[Thunk]

And no...I don't have a link! Read a damn history book!

 

[Thunk]

You failed, fucker. We are still here.

How?

 

[Hellbilly]

How?

You're really good at being an idiot.

 

[Sunni Man]

Many years ago, I heard a learned scholar say that Columbus was "An agent of the inevitable".
That if he hadn't sailed west and discovered the New World, someone else soon would have.

 

[Vastator]

Was anyone living here when he discovered it?

It really doesn't matter if anyone was here already. Columbus not only discovered "new lands" to his financiers; he also revealed the existence of the broader world, to the natives. Something that hadn't been previously done.

 

[hjmick]

Why is he credited when he surely didn't discover it?

He had a better publicist.

 

[mudwhistle]

Yup...some nomadic war like barbarians. We took care of them in short order.

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I'm sure you did.
And you also won the Super Bowl this year too.

 

[rightwinger]

What I learned in school was a Viking discovery that led to nothing. Columbus discovered it again and that led to others exploring and later settling America. It was a progression. Dropping particular points of history accomplishes nothing.

It is like discovering a cure for Cancer and not telling anyone

 

[Damaged Eagle]

The Americas.

That's debatable. The Mayans and other people living here before the arrival of the Europeans referred to the continent Murica.

*****SMILE*****

 

[Quasar44]

Why is he credited when he surely didn't discover it?

He paved the way
He pioneered the path

 

[AMart]

He was the point man in the largest, most brutal colonization effort in human history. That might have something to do with it.

Hogwash he died in 1506. Virtually no colonization had taken place by then. And if not for him you punk ass would still be living in Europe living as a serf.

 

[Thunk]

You're really good at being an idiot.

I'll be honest...I have great respect for native American indians and I thunk there is great wisdom in their folklore (which I love to read).

But when injuns start riding the blacks coattails on the "GIMME FREE MONEY" and "HATE ******" train...you can expect a poke in the eye and nothing more!

 

[Hellbilly]

But when injuns start riding the blacks coattails on the "GIMME FREE MONEY" and "HATE ******" train...you can expect a poke in the eye and nothing more!

We actually laugh at you. A lot.

 

[Bob Blaylock]

you should read some history before making an ass of yourself,,

It doesn't really matter in what order he does it, whether he makes an ass of himself first, and then reads some history, or reads some history first, and then makes an ass of himself.

 

[Thunk]

We actually laugh at you. A lot.

Feel free