• Why The Left Tells Lies About Christopher Columbus

    From Ubiquitous@21:1/5 to All on Tue Oct 12 21:05:09 2021
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    For over a decade, Columbus has been painted as a mass murderer,
    committing all sorts of crimes in the New World, including genocide.

    So far, though, he has not–at least, not yet–been accused of not
    providing transgender bathrooms in his ships.

    Those accusations are complete fabrications, unsupported by even one
    shred of historical evidence. Let me repeat that because it is very
    important: there is no historical basis, no contemporary documents,
    nothing, that indicates that he engaged in all of the “crimes” that
    present-day activists have promulgated. None! Zip! Nada!

    The “accusations” (which often sound more like insults than rational accusations) range from the gruesome (claiming he chopped off Indians’
    hands for not bringing gold or carrying out genocide—total
    fabrications) to the infantile (ridiculing the fact that one of his
    ships sunk—he was not the captain of that particular ship and they were
    sailing in uncharted seas abounding in hidden reefs), to the stupid
    (Democrat politicians and Native Americans claiming that Columbus
    carried out genocide in North America, where he never set foot nor
    sail).

    Nonetheless, we can expect the usual posturing and sloganeering on
    Columbus Day by historically illiterate leftists and “indigenous
    people,” some of the latter being about as Native American as Elizabeth
    Warren.

    One should consult primary sources (preferably in the original Spanish
    and not in translations): his logbook, the “Capitulations” (legal
    documents, also known as the “Book of Privileges”), the contemporary biographies, and especially “Los Cuatro Viajes del Almirante y su
    Testamento,” and, “Brevísima Relación de la Destrucción de las Indias,”
    both written by Friar Bartolomé de las Casas, who as every schoolchild
    in Spain and the Caribbean knows, was the Apostle of the Indians for
    working indefatigably to protect the Indians from his fellow Spaniards.

    De las Casas never mentions Columbus committing any crimes, and De las
    Casas did not shrink from accusing anyone. On the contrary, he mentions Columbus as constantly protecting the natives from his crew and the
    settlers. The explorer often had trouble controlling the men under him
    because he was a foreigner and the Spaniards resented any foreigner
    ordering them; in fact, because he was a foreigner, some contemporary
    Spaniards even downplayed his discovery. On top of that, the natives
    were helpless, had gold nuggets, and the women and men were completely
    naked. Picture the problem.

    Sometimes, the accusations/insults hurled at him are of events that
    occurred decades after he was dead, carried out by the Spaniards, who
    worked the natives to death after he was gone, to the point that,
    unlike the North and South American continents, no natives were left
    alive in any of the Caribbean islands. When he is not directly accused
    of committing those acts, he is accused of being responsible for them
    because of his discovery of the New World, which is like arguing that
    Henry Ford was responsible for all of the traffic accidents and the
    deaths from tank battles, almost a century after Ford’s death.

    Furthermore, Spain was in a race with Portugal for finding a route to
    Asia to establish trade. Columbus’ expedition was seen as a commercial
    voyage, which at the very least would hopefully pay for itself, if not
    actually be lucrative. The discovered islands were henceforth seen as
    trading posts and as stepping stones to Asia. His first voyage cost
    relatively little compared to the massive expenditures of subsequent
    voyages (huge supplies had to be sent because the climate and the land
    were not conducive to raising European crops; additionally, hundreds
    died from yellow fever; Columbus himself was stricken). This explains
    the preoccupation with finding gold. Fortunately for Spain, Cuba and
    Hispaniola had gold.

    Something that has to be understood, which is counterintuitive to us,
    is that European monarchies were poor. Much of Europe’s mineral wealth
    had been sent east for spices, and the silver and gold mines of the
    continent had been long exhausted. The splendor and wealth that we
    associate with monarchies really begins in the 1500s, partly as a
    result of the discoveries of the massive presence of silver and gold in
    Central and South America (Potosí practically had a mountain of silver
    with some dirt sprinkled on it).

    An additional result of finding the New World, according to Wootton’s
    “The Invention of Science,” Columbus’ discovery of a new continent was
    a tectonic shift for European minds. Hitherto, it had been assumed by
    everyone that the Ancient Romans and Greeks had discovered everything
    that there was to know about anything. It came as a shock that there
    was an unknown antipodal continent, with unknown people, animals,
    vegetation, and geography. And many discoveries awaited. By anyone.

    Nowadays, it is seen as fashionable to dismiss Columbus’ Promethean
    effort because the New World had already been discovered by the Vikings
    and the natives. However, Hans Selye clarified it best in “From Dream
    to Discovery:” “The important difference between the discovery of
    America by the Indians, by the Norsemen, and by Columbus is only that
    Columbus succeeded in attaching the American continent to the rest of
    the world.”

    The propaganda against Columbus has come primarily from Marxists, best exemplified by Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States”
    (anytime that you see the word “People’s” in the title of a
    publication, a Marxist probably wrote it). Zinn was an admitted
    Communist and the purpose of his textbook (which is presently being
    used for indoctrination in American schools through the innocent-
    sounding Zinn Project) was to make gullible, naďve, students hate their
    country and motivate them to destroy it. It has succeeded. And
    Christopher Columbus has been one of his victims. Nor is Zinn alone in
    such efforts.

    Similar propaganda is found in Huffington Post, The Guardian, The New
    Yorker, and many, many other publications which have saturated the
    culture, all stating the same message, all written by smug, self-
    confident leftists with a colossal ignorance of history. One can also
    find examples on YouTube. They are even briefly inserted in television
    programs (“The Sopranos,” “The Office,” “The Good Place”), like
    intellectual drive-by shootings. That illustrates how thoroughly
    saturated our society has become with leftist lies.

    Ultimately, the matter boils down to one question: who do you trust
    more, writers for Huffington Post and The Guardian, who cannot even
    read Spanish, or, documents and historians writing at the time of
    Columbus and witnessed events?

    Marxists have a long-standing record of mutilating history for
    ideological purposes. In the first half of the century, Soviet
    historians claimed that Russia had invented the car, the plane, the
    light bulb, soccer, baseball, etc. In the comedy film, “The Mouse That
    Roared,” a group of ambassadors pass the time playing Monopoly; the
    Russian ambassador claims that they invented the game.

    At any rate, the attack on Columbus is not an isolated incident. His
    statues have been vandalized, or toppled, as have been the statues of
    Lincoln, Jefferson, Lee, and many, many others. The falsification of
    Columbus’ history is not an isolated case either, just look at the 1619 Project, to cite simply one of the most obvious cases, not to mention
    the CRT movement.

    All these are actually attacks on America, on civilization. This is not hyperbole. The leftists say so. Why? Perhaps Milan Kundera, a former
    resident of a Communist country can best put it together: “The first
    step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books,
    its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books,
    manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that
    nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world
    around it will forget even faster.”

    The question remains, then, whether Americans will permit this
    sacrilege. From what I have seen so far, yes, they already have. Their
    only response to this outrage has been to whine.

    --
    Trump won.

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  • From David Hartung@21:1/5 to Ubiquitous on Tue Oct 12 06:19:49 2021
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    On 10/12/21 8:05 PM, Ubiquitous wrote:
    For over a decade, Columbus has been painted as a mass murderer,
    committing all sorts of crimes in the New World, including genocide.

    So far, though, he has not–at least, not yet–been accused of not providing transgender bathrooms in his ships.

    Those accusations are complete fabrications, unsupported by even one
    shred of historical evidence. Let me repeat that because it is very important: there is no historical basis, no contemporary documents,
    nothing, that indicates that he engaged in all of the “crimes” that present-day activists have promulgated. None! Zip! Nada!

    The “accusations” (which often sound more like insults than rational accusations) range from the gruesome (claiming he chopped off Indians’ hands for not bringing gold or carrying out genocide—total
    fabrications) to the infantile (ridiculing the fact that one of his
    ships sunk—he was not the captain of that particular ship and they were sailing in uncharted seas abounding in hidden reefs), to the stupid
    (Democrat politicians and Native Americans claiming that Columbus
    carried out genocide in North America, where he never set foot nor
    sail).

    Nonetheless, we can expect the usual posturing and sloganeering on
    Columbus Day by historically illiterate leftists and “indigenous
    people,” some of the latter being about as Native American as Elizabeth Warren.

    One should consult primary sources (preferably in the original Spanish
    and not in translations): his logbook, the “Capitulations” (legal documents, also known as the “Book of Privileges”), the contemporary biographies, and especially “Los Cuatro Viajes del Almirante y su Testamento,” and, “Brevísima Relación de la Destrucción de las Indias,”
    both written by Friar Bartolomé de las Casas, who as every schoolchild
    in Spain and the Caribbean knows, was the Apostle of the Indians for
    working indefatigably to protect the Indians from his fellow Spaniards.

    De las Casas never mentions Columbus committing any crimes, and De las
    Casas did not shrink from accusing anyone. On the contrary, he mentions Columbus as constantly protecting the natives from his crew and the
    settlers. The explorer often had trouble controlling the men under him because he was a foreigner and the Spaniards resented any foreigner
    ordering them; in fact, because he was a foreigner, some contemporary Spaniards even downplayed his discovery. On top of that, the natives
    were helpless, had gold nuggets, and the women and men were completely
    naked. Picture the problem.

    Sometimes, the accusations/insults hurled at him are of events that
    occurred decades after he was dead, carried out by the Spaniards, who
    worked the natives to death after he was gone, to the point that,
    unlike the North and South American continents, no natives were left
    alive in any of the Caribbean islands. When he is not directly accused
    of committing those acts, he is accused of being responsible for them
    because of his discovery of the New World, which is like arguing that
    Henry Ford was responsible for all of the traffic accidents and the
    deaths from tank battles, almost a century after Ford’s death.

    Furthermore, Spain was in a race with Portugal for finding a route to
    Asia to establish trade. Columbus’ expedition was seen as a commercial voyage, which at the very least would hopefully pay for itself, if not actually be lucrative. The discovered islands were henceforth seen as
    trading posts and as stepping stones to Asia. His first voyage cost relatively little compared to the massive expenditures of subsequent
    voyages (huge supplies had to be sent because the climate and the land
    were not conducive to raising European crops; additionally, hundreds
    died from yellow fever; Columbus himself was stricken). This explains
    the preoccupation with finding gold. Fortunately for Spain, Cuba and Hispaniola had gold.

    Something that has to be understood, which is counterintuitive to us,
    is that European monarchies were poor. Much of Europe’s mineral wealth
    had been sent east for spices, and the silver and gold mines of the
    continent had been long exhausted. The splendor and wealth that we
    associate with monarchies really begins in the 1500s, partly as a
    result of the discoveries of the massive presence of silver and gold in Central and South America (PotosĂ­ practically had a mountain of silver
    with some dirt sprinkled on it).

    An additional result of finding the New World, according to Wootton’s “The Invention of Science,” Columbus’ discovery of a new continent was a tectonic shift for European minds. Hitherto, it had been assumed by everyone that the Ancient Romans and Greeks had discovered everything
    that there was to know about anything. It came as a shock that there
    was an unknown antipodal continent, with unknown people, animals,
    vegetation, and geography. And many discoveries awaited. By anyone.

    Nowadays, it is seen as fashionable to dismiss Columbus’ Promethean
    effort because the New World had already been discovered by the Vikings
    and the natives. However, Hans Selye clarified it best in “From Dream
    to Discovery:” “The important difference between the discovery of
    America by the Indians, by the Norsemen, and by Columbus is only that Columbus succeeded in attaching the American continent to the rest of
    the world.”

    The propaganda against Columbus has come primarily from Marxists, best exemplified by Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States” (anytime that you see the word “People’s” in the title of a publication, a Marxist probably wrote it). Zinn was an admitted
    Communist and the purpose of his textbook (which is presently being
    used for indoctrination in American schools through the innocent-
    sounding Zinn Project) was to make gullible, naĂŻve, students hate their country and motivate them to destroy it. It has succeeded. And
    Christopher Columbus has been one of his victims. Nor is Zinn alone in
    such efforts.

    Similar propaganda is found in Huffington Post, The Guardian, The New
    Yorker, and many, many other publications which have saturated the
    culture, all stating the same message, all written by smug, self-
    confident leftists with a colossal ignorance of history. One can also
    find examples on YouTube. They are even briefly inserted in television programs (“The Sopranos,” “The Office,” “The Good Place”), like intellectual drive-by shootings. That illustrates how thoroughly
    saturated our society has become with leftist lies.

    Ultimately, the matter boils down to one question: who do you trust
    more, writers for Huffington Post and The Guardian, who cannot even
    read Spanish, or, documents and historians writing at the time of
    Columbus and witnessed events?

    Marxists have a long-standing record of mutilating history for
    ideological purposes. In the first half of the century, Soviet
    historians claimed that Russia had invented the car, the plane, the
    light bulb, soccer, baseball, etc. In the comedy film, “The Mouse That Roared,” a group of ambassadors pass the time playing Monopoly; the
    Russian ambassador claims that they invented the game.

    At any rate, the attack on Columbus is not an isolated incident. His
    statues have been vandalized, or toppled, as have been the statues of Lincoln, Jefferson, Lee, and many, many others. The falsification of Columbus’ history is not an isolated case either, just look at the 1619 Project, to cite simply one of the most obvious cases, not to mention
    the CRT movement.

    All these are actually attacks on America, on civilization. This is not hyperbole. The leftists say so. Why? Perhaps Milan Kundera, a former
    resident of a Communist country can best put it together: “The first
    step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books,
    its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books,
    manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that
    nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world
    around it will forget even faster.”

    The question remains, then, whether Americans will permit this
    sacrilege. From what I have seen so far, yes, they already have. Their
    only response to this outrage has been to whine.

    Interesting read, thank you.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From B1ackwater@21:1/5 to Ubiquitous on Tue Oct 12 13:39:38 2021
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    Ubiquitous wrote

    For over a decade, Columbus has been painted as a mass murderer,
    committing all sorts of crimes in the New World, including genocide.


    Wrong.

    "In May 1498, Columbus sailed west across the
    Atlantic for the third time. He visited Trinidad
    and the South American mainland before returning
    to the ill-fated Hispaniola settlement, where
    the colonists had staged a bloody revolt against
    the Columbus brothers’ mismanagement and brutality.
    Conditions were so bad that Spanish authorities
    had to send a new governor to take over. Meanwhile,
    the native Taino population, forced to search for
    gold and to work on plantations, was decimated
    (within 60 years after Columbus landed, only a few
    hundred of what may have been 250,000 Taino were
    left on their island). Christopher Columbus was
    arrested and returned to Spain in chains."

    https://www.history.com/topics/exploration/christopher-columbus

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  • From Bob Duncan@21:1/5 to Ubiquitous on Tue Oct 12 13:38:01 2021
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    Ubiquitous wrote

    For over a decade, Columbus has been painted as a mass murderer,
    committing all sorts of crimes in the New World, including genocide.

    Evasion noted.

    He was a fucking italian who never set foot in the USA.

    Dagos are nothing but shit. Considering them white people is ridiculous.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Rudy Canoza@21:1/5 to David Hartung on Tue Oct 12 07:59:39 2021
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    On 10/12/2021 4:19 AM, David Hartung wrote:
    On 10/12/21 8:05 PM, Ubiquitous wrote:
    For over a decade, Columbus has been painted as a mass murderer,
    committing all sorts of crimes in the New World, including genocide.

    He did.



    Interesting read, thank you.

    It's a bunch of right-wingnut bullshit. It's not interesting.

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  • From B1ackwater@21:1/5 to Ubiquitous on Tue Oct 12 17:17:55 2021
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    Ubiquitous wrote

    For over a decade, Columbus has been painted as a mass murderer,
    committing all sorts of crimes in the New World, including genocide.


    Wrong.

    "In May 1498, Columbus sailed west across the
    Atlantic for the third time. He visited Trinidad
    and the South American mainland before returning
    to the ill-fated Hispaniola settlement, where
    the colonists had staged a bloody revolt against
    the Columbus brothers’ mismanagement and brutality.
    Conditions were so bad that Spanish authorities
    had to send a new governor to take over. Meanwhile,
    the native Taino population, forced to search for
    gold and to work on plantations, was decimated
    (within 60 years after Columbus landed, only a few
    hundred of what may have been 250,000 Taino were
    left on their island). Christopher Columbus was
    arrested and returned to Spain in chains."

    https://www.history.com/topics/exploration/christopher-columbus

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Bob Duncan@21:1/5 to Ubiquitous on Tue Oct 12 17:17:56 2021
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    Ubiquitous wrote

    For over a decade, Columbus has been painted as a mass murderer,
    committing all sorts of crimes in the New World, including genocide.

    Evasion noted.

    He was a fucking italian who never set foot in the USA.

    Dagos are nothing but shit. Considering them white people is ridiculous.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From B1ackwater@21:1/5 to Ubiquitous on Wed Nov 3 17:11:09 2021
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    Ubiquitous wrote

    For over a decade, Columbus has been painted as a mass murderer,
    committing all sorts of crimes in the New World, including genocide.


    Wrong.

    "In May 1498, Columbus sailed west across the
    Atlantic for the third time. He visited Trinidad
    and the South American mainland before returning
    to the ill-fated Hispaniola settlement, where
    the colonists had staged a bloody revolt against
    the Columbus brothers’ mismanagement and brutality.
    Conditions were so bad that Spanish authorities
    had to send a new governor to take over. Meanwhile,
    the native Taino population, forced to search for
    gold and to work on plantations, was decimated
    (within 60 years after Columbus landed, only a few
    hundred of what may have been 250,000 Taino were
    left on their island). Christopher Columbus was
    arrested and returned to Spain in chains."

    https://www.history.com/topics/exploration/christopher-columbus

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Bob Duncan@21:1/5 to Ubiquitous on Tue Nov 9 22:04:57 2021
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    Ubiquitous wrote

    For over a decade, Columbus has been painted as a mass murderer,
    committing all sorts of crimes in the New World, including genocide.

    Evasion noted.

    He was a fucking italian who never set foot in the USA.

    Dagos are nothing but shit. Considering them white people is ridiculous.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From B1ackwater@21:1/5 to Ubiquitous on Thu Nov 11 01:29:53 2021
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    Ubiquitous wrote

    For over a decade, Columbus has been painted as a mass murderer,
    committing all sorts of crimes in the New World, including genocide.


    Wrong.

    "In May 1498, Columbus sailed west across the
    Atlantic for the third time. He visited Trinidad
    and the South American mainland before returning
    to the ill-fated Hispaniola settlement, where
    the colonists had staged a bloody revolt against
    the Columbus brothers’ mismanagement and brutality.
    Conditions were so bad that Spanish authorities
    had to send a new governor to take over. Meanwhile,
    the native Taino population, forced to search for
    gold and to work on plantations, was decimated
    (within 60 years after Columbus landed, only a few
    hundred of what may have been 250,000 Taino were
    left on their island). Christopher Columbus was
    arrested and returned to Spain in chains."

    https://www.history.com/topics/exploration/christopher-columbus

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Bob Duncan@21:1/5 to Ubiquitous on Sat Nov 27 23:24:00 2021
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    Ubiquitous wrote

    For over a decade, Columbus has been painted as a mass murderer,
    committing all sorts of crimes in the New World, including genocide.

    Evasion noted.

    He was a fucking italian who never set foot in the USA.

    Dagos are nothing but shit. Considering them white people is ridiculous.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Bob Duncan@21:1/5 to Ubiquitous on Mon Nov 29 04:11:14 2021
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    Ubiquitous wrote

    For over a decade, Columbus has been painted as a mass murderer,
    committing all sorts of crimes in the New World, including genocide.

    Evasion noted.

    He was a fucking italian who never set foot in the USA.

    Dagos are nothing but shit. Considering them white people is ridiculous.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Bob Duncan@21:1/5 to Ubiquitous on Sun Dec 5 15:37:40 2021
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    Ubiquitous wrote

    For over a decade, Columbus has been painted as a mass murderer,
    committing all sorts of crimes in the New World, including genocide.

    Evasion noted.

    He was a fucking italian who never set foot in the USA.

    Dagos are nothing but shit. Considering them white people is ridiculous.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From B1ackwater@21:1/5 to Ubiquitous on Tue Dec 7 22:17:15 2021
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    Ubiquitous wrote

    For over a decade, Columbus has been painted as a mass murderer,
    committing all sorts of crimes in the New World, including genocide.


    Wrong.

    "In May 1498, Columbus sailed west across the
    Atlantic for the third time. He visited Trinidad
    and the South American mainland before returning
    to the ill-fated Hispaniola settlement, where
    the colonists had staged a bloody revolt against
    the Columbus brothers’ mismanagement and brutality.
    Conditions were so bad that Spanish authorities
    had to send a new governor to take over. Meanwhile,
    the native Taino population, forced to search for
    gold and to work on plantations, was decimated
    (within 60 years after Columbus landed, only a few
    hundred of what may have been 250,000 Taino were
    left on their island). Christopher Columbus was
    arrested and returned to Spain in chains."

    https://www.history.com/topics/exploration/christopher-columbus

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Bob Duncan@21:1/5 to Ubiquitous on Fri Jan 21 06:28:23 2022
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    Ubiquitous wrote

    For over a decade, Columbus has been painted as a mass murderer,
    committing all sorts of crimes in the New World, including genocide.

    Evasion noted.

    He was a fucking italian who never set foot in the USA.

    Dagos are nothing but shit. Considering them white people is ridiculous.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From B1ackwater@21:1/5 to Ubiquitous on Tue Jan 25 23:16:53 2022
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    Ubiquitous wrote

    For over a decade, Columbus has been painted as a mass murderer,
    committing all sorts of crimes in the New World, including genocide.


    Wrong.

    "In May 1498, Columbus sailed west across the
    Atlantic for the third time. He visited Trinidad
    and the South American mainland before returning
    to the ill-fated Hispaniola settlement, where
    the colonists had staged a bloody revolt against
    the Columbus brothers’ mismanagement and brutality.
    Conditions were so bad that Spanish authorities
    had to send a new governor to take over. Meanwhile,
    the native Taino population, forced to search for
    gold and to work on plantations, was decimated
    (within 60 years after Columbus landed, only a few
    hundred of what may have been 250,000 Taino were
    left on their island). Christopher Columbus was
    arrested and returned to Spain in chains."

    https://www.history.com/topics/exploration/christopher-columbus

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Bob Duncan@21:1/5 to Ubiquitous on Tue Jan 25 23:16:54 2022
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    Ubiquitous wrote

    For over a decade, Columbus has been painted as a mass murderer,
    committing all sorts of crimes in the New World, including genocide.

    Evasion noted.

    He was a fucking italian who never set foot in the USA.

    Dagos are nothing but shit. Considering them white people is ridiculous.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Bob Duncan@21:1/5 to Ubiquitous on Wed Jan 26 19:24:01 2022
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.history, alt.politics.usa
    XPost: alt.tv.pol-incorrect

    Ubiquitous wrote

    For over a decade, Columbus has been painted as a mass murderer,
    committing all sorts of crimes in the New World, including genocide.

    Evasion noted.

    He was a fucking italian who never set foot in the USA.

    Dagos are nothing but shit. Considering them white people is ridiculous.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Bob Duncan@21:1/5 to Ubiquitous on Fri Feb 4 03:42:32 2022
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.history, alt.politics.usa
    XPost: alt.tv.pol-incorrect

    Ubiquitous wrote

    For over a decade, Columbus has been painted as a mass murderer,
    committing all sorts of crimes in the New World, including genocide.

    Evasion noted.

    He was a fucking italian who never set foot in the USA.

    Dagos are nothing but shit. Considering them white people is ridiculous.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)