Your thoughts on this? ("Should we really still be calling it ‪'Columbus Day?'‬")

[Sunni Man]

It was stupid to call an American holiday "Columbus Day" and its stupid to give part of the country a paid day off to celebrate some fool who didn't even use a sextant correctly.

The "sextant" wasn't invented until the 1700's you freakin retard. ... .


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[Iceweasel]

It is leftist propaganda. There was no genocide.

The is conservative revisionist history.

You don't know history. Disease killed off most of those who died, not "genocide". And don't start with the small pox blankets.

 

[Meathead]

Columbus got lost and put in to land he stumbled across, thought it was India so called the owners of the land "Indians".

It was stupid to call an American holiday "Columbus Day" and its stupid to give part of the country a paid day off to celebrate some fool who didn't even use a sextant correctly.

Columbus did not even 'discover' America. there were others here before him.

Columbus did discover America to those who did not know where it was. It is a matter of historical record and a watershed event in human history. No one cares if it doesn't fit in with your narrative.

 

[percysunshine]

The worse thing the US government did to native American Indians was subject them to socialized medicine.

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[NoNukes]

It is leftist propaganda. There was no genocide.

The is conservative revisionist history.

You don't know history. Disease killed off most of those who died, not "genocide". And don't start with the small pox blankets.

My mother was an Indian. I grew up hearing the truth from Indians, not Whites.

 

[NoNukes]

Columbus got lost and put in to land he stumbled across, thought it was India so called the owners of the land "Indians".

It was stupid to call an American holiday "Columbus Day" and its stupid to give part of the country a paid day off to celebrate some fool who didn't even use a sextant correctly.

Columbus did not even 'discover' America. there were others here before him.

Columbus did discover America to those who did not know where it was. It is a matter of historical record and a watershed event in human history. No one cares if it doesn't fit in with your narrative.

The Vikings were there first. If Columbus discovered America, who was it named after?

 

[Meathead]

My mother was an Indian. I grew up hearing the truth from Indians, not Whites.

No one cares.

 

[NoNukes]

The worse thing the US government did to native American Indians was subject them to socialized medicine.

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And turned them into alcoholics.

 

[Meathead]

Columbus got lost and put in to land he stumbled across, thought it was India so called the owners of the land "Indians".

It was stupid to call an American holiday "Columbus Day" and its stupid to give part of the country a paid day off to celebrate some fool who didn't even use a sextant correctly.

Columbus did not even 'discover' America. there were others here before him.

Columbus did discover America to those who did not know where it was. It is a matter of historical record and a watershed event in human history. No one cares if it doesn't fit in with your narrative.

The Vikings were there first. If Columbus discovered America, who was it named after?

Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian.

 

[NoNukes]

My mother was an Indian. I grew up hearing the truth from Indians, not Whites.

No one cares.

An idiot like you speaks for very few.

 

[NoNukes]

Columbus got lost and put in to land he stumbled across, thought it was India so called the owners of the land "Indians".

It was stupid to call an American holiday "Columbus Day" and its stupid to give part of the country a paid day off to celebrate some fool who didn't even use a sextant correctly.

Columbus did not even 'discover' America. there were others here before him.

Columbus did discover America to those who did not know where it was. It is a matter of historical record and a watershed event in human history. No one cares if it doesn't fit in with your narrative.

The Vikings were there first. If Columbus discovered America, who was it named after?

Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian.

Why was it not named after Columbus? Oh right, he was the first to discover Ohio.

Where did Columbus first land?

 

[Meathead]

My mother was an Indian. I grew up hearing the truth from Indians, not Whites.

No one cares.

An idiot like you speaks for very few.

No, seriously! No one cares about your Indian grandmother or whatever the hell she was.

 

[Iceweasel]

It is leftist propaganda. There was no genocide.

The is conservative revisionist history.

You don't know history. Disease killed off most of those who died, not "genocide". And don't start with the small pox blankets.

My mother was an Indian. I grew up hearing the truth from Indians, not Whites.

Yeah, she was 300 years old. They were a stone age people with no written language. She only knows what she was told.

 

[norwegen]

Columbus, though a Genoian, sailed for Spain, a country whose colonizers intermarried with the Indians, instead of killing them all, like the English did in North America. Consequently, if there is to be someone to be celebrated for the discovery of America, I would rather it be Columbus, rather than one of the New England Puritans, whose idea of negotiation with the Natives was to kill them all, like the did to the Pequot's.

The English killed all the Indians in North America, did they? You're obviously a liberal.

You may think that the “Black Legend” derives from the anti-Spanish sentiment of the country’s European rivals, but they did decimate the Taino population, and then raid Central America for more labor for their planters and miners on the islands. Ultimately, they exacted labor all around the Gulf of Mexico, from Venezuela to Florida.

Then they heard reports of great wealth, particularly of the Aztecs. Hernan Cortez deceived Moctezuma and decimated Tenochtitlan. Thereafter, frustrated that they could not find any more gold, the conquistadores just killed the natives and enslaved their children.

As colonizers in the New World, the Spaniards were especially brutal, seconded only by the Russians, I would say. Unlike the Spaniards and other Europeans, including other Englishmen, the Puritans did not come here for economic reasons. They had little motive to conquer and subjugate people. Seeking religious freedom, they themselves were intolerant of other faiths in their communities, as the Witch Trials remind us of, and they may not have been as benevolent as the French, but in no way were they anything like the conquistadores of Spain or the promyshlenniki of Russia.

The Puritans, in fact, embarrassed, in retrospect, by their intolerances, developed social and political theories that served as some of America’s founding principles.

 

[Meathead]

The Conquistadors, it is said, came to the new world for Gold, glory and God, in that order.

 

[norwegen]

The Conquistadors, it is said, came to the new world for Gold, glory and God, in that order.

Many people have claimed to have done things in the name of God, without any Biblical sanction.

 

[Gracie]

I think celebrating columbus day is about as intelligent as celebrating Hilters birthday.

 

[Meathead]

The Conquistadors, it is said, came to the new world for Gold, glory and God, in that order.

Many people have claimed to have done things in the name of God, without any Biblical sanction.

I wonder if the same thing could be said of the Quran
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[Meathead]

I think celebrating columbus day is about as intelligent as celebrating Hilters birthday.

Really bright equivalence there dingbat.

 

[Gracie]

I think celebrating columbus day is about as intelligent as celebrating Hilters birthday.

Really bright equivalence there dingbat.

Truth hurts, sparky.