Somehow, it's an injustice that Columbus Day, for the most part, is only a federal and bank employees holiday.
sorry i missed the rest of the convo, i was down in brazil, finding lost tribes of the amazon, and shooting them in the face its cool though, i gave the few survivors a cell phone, so they are better off
We did give them blankets filled with smallpox. Or is that an urban legend? And yeah, we enslaved some, killed others, assimilated more and relocated the ones that were left to the shittiest parts of the country we could find. Sure we can celebrate ourselves-- we certainly didn't do any of these things personally. But why celebrate the people who did do those things, all for the sake of hoarding treasure, just because it happened to lead to our country being founded?
Who is "them"? Weren't there hundreds of tribes throughout the Americas? I don't think that some cases of handing out infected blankets indicate an intentional destruction of two continents' worth of people. Name a part of the world where that hasn't happened. There are winners and losers throughout history. Because it lead to our country being founded, and to lives around the world being enriched by the good that our country (and, indeed, the countries of the Americas more generally) has done. Ed O.
Modern day PC apologism aside, the point of celebrating Columbus is to celebrate the adventurous spirit of explorers, without whom none of us would have ever been born. Indians "discovered" America thousands of years before Columbus did, and likely wiped out the Polynesian race that "discovered" America before they did. Man has always killed man, usually out of greed, often out of fear or ignorance, occasionally in self defense. No race is any better than any other in that regard.
I'm tired of all the liberal softies trying to make-- burning 13 Indians at a time at the stake to celebrate Jesus and the 12 Apostles --look bad. Think of all the good that came from torture. Without torture, we'd still be back in Europe, acting like liberal softies. Indians would be here, acting like liberal softies. We all owe a debt of gratitude to torture.
and good for us, they deserved it obviously they werent born lucky enough and they are better off now that they are wiped off the face of the earth, because we have motorized back scratchers and oscillating dildos for their ghosts to look at
Did you freeze the video each time it showed silent writing, to give you time to read it? As I read each of the disgusting posts, I thought
I'd like to propose a 'Black Death' appreciation day for all of Europe. You know, to honor the descendants of the 'winners'.
In the 60s I used to think, there will sure be a big celebration in 1992 of 1492. A few articles in Oct. 1992 mentioned that there wouldn't be any events because maybe Columbus wasn't such a good man. They barely mentioned that this was widely taught in Latin America, with Cuba initiating such education years ago. Not celebrating was a PR move by the US to prevent anti-American feeling south of the border. Meanwhile, many government employees still get a holiday on Columbus Day. More important, American schools still indoctrinate children in patriotic lies.
I'm not saying that my opinion matters, either. And I'm not saying that I don't care about his proposal. Ed O.
The film went too fast through some of the following subtitles, forcing the viewer to hit the pause button to read them. Since you defended the following practices as historically inevitable and not to be lamented, I thought that maybe you had missed some.
Thousands of indigenous people turned on their own race and helped the Spanish conquer South America. In fact most of the Spanish "forces" consisted of Native Americans that helped kill or battle other Native Americans.
