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originally posted by: fiverx313
to be fair, columbus was a terrible person.
Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress
originally posted by: JoshuaCox
a reply to: xuenchen
Good...
He didn't discover $H!T and and was a genocidal mass murder...
And that isn't some modern day civilization talking...
He was jailed by the queen of Spain when she found out about his atrocities..
"This is from memory) but a cleric who accompanied him went crazy after the barbarity he saw... there was something about the priest who went with him that was really jacked up to.. but the exact details escape me..
originally posted by: JoshuaCox
a reply to: TruMcCarthy
HOW is he a really important figure?!?!
Him being like the 6th person the "discover America?!?"
originally posted by: TruMcCarthy
Who cares if Columbus was a bad person, he is a very historic figure in human history. I think we should celebrate human history, the good, and the bad, as it all has made us who we are today. The good, we can try and emulate, the bad we can learn from our mistakes so as not to repeat them. You need to understand both if we are going to build a better future.
originally posted by: JoshuaCox
a reply to: ClovenSky
You should read a history book on Columbus 'a atrocities.. he was jailed for them IN HIS OWN TIME and only freed because the king liked him personally.
In a time when EVERYONE was a racist imperialist, he was jailed for his atrocities...
That wasn't easy in that time period..
Columbus WAS hitler... he makes basically every slave owner in the south look like the tooth fairy..
originally posted by: Nyiah
originally posted by: TruMcCarthy
Who cares if Columbus was a bad person, he is a very historic figure in human history. I think we should celebrate human history, the good, and the bad, as it all has made us who we are today. The good, we can try and emulate, the bad we can learn from our mistakes so as not to repeat them. You need to understand both if we are going to build a better future.
That's like saying Genghis Khan gets proximity discovery credit for discovering somewhere his hoards never went to begin with.
originally posted by: TruMcCarthy
originally posted by: Nyiah
originally posted by: TruMcCarthy
Who cares if Columbus was a bad person, he is a very historic figure in human history. I think we should celebrate human history, the good, and the bad, as it all has made us who we are today. The good, we can try and emulate, the bad we can learn from our mistakes so as not to repeat them. You need to understand both if we are going to build a better future.
That's like saying Genghis Khan gets proximity discovery credit for discovering somewhere his hoards never went to begin with.
Genghis Khan is also a monumental figure in history.
originally posted by: Nyiah
originally posted by: TruMcCarthy
originally posted by: Nyiah
originally posted by: TruMcCarthy
Who cares if Columbus was a bad person, he is a very historic figure in human history. I think we should celebrate human history, the good, and the bad, as it all has made us who we are today. The good, we can try and emulate, the bad we can learn from our mistakes so as not to repeat them. You need to understand both if we are going to build a better future.
That's like saying Genghis Khan gets proximity discovery credit for discovering somewhere his hoards never went to begin with.
Genghis Khan is also a monumental figure in history.
He is not, however, paraded falsely as a discoverer of a land he never touched in his life.