Board 8 > Honoring Columbus Day

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In defense of the most maligned holiday that exists!

http://dudewheresmyfreedom.wordpress.com/2011/10/10/happy-columbus-day/

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aw, my first ad hominem flame

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I am pretty sure that is nowhere near the first

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I enjoyed this

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I ALMOST was tricked into clicking that.

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well, on the site it was the first!

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If only he wasn't so evil he would have somehow developed germ theory a few centuries ahead of schedule and somehow taken measures to prevent the transmission of disease!

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He certainly discovered it from the perspective of Europe

No, the Norse did.

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No, they didn't.

They didn't realize what they had discovered. They never ventured mainland. Then they completely abandoned their remote little trading outpost.

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Good article, SMuffin. I'm surprised you didn't mention the whole "Columbus was so brave for sailing because everyone else thought the world was flat" fabrication!

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Well, although it's true that "everyone thought the world is flat" was a fabrication, I still consider him pretty brave! It still involved sailing into the unknown. From the little I've read, it was very hard to recruit Sailors, and many of his crew were convicts who were pardoned in exchange for going on the voyage.

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it's not the disease thing as much as working the native arawaks to death to find gold that didn't exist. he deserves to be maligned.

he discovered the dominican republic, big deal.

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From: SmartMuffin | #010
No, they didn't.

They didn't realize what they had discovered. They never ventured mainland. Then they completely abandoned their remote little trading outpost.

Columbus thought he had discovered the East Indies.

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Should celebrate Leif Ericson day instead, TBQH.

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it's not the disease thing as much as working the native arawaks to death to find gold that didn't exist. he deserves to be maligned.

Sometimes, lives need to be sacrificed in the name of progress.

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Look at all these ignorant people refusing to understand the point here!

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It's fun to hear smuffin call other people ignorant.

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It's also fun to be part of a group that consistently ostracizes one of it's members.

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working them to death, killing them just because, the selling and raping of 10 year olds

but wait IT YIELDED A NET POSITIVE so YAY COLUMBUS!

working them to death, killing them just because, the selling and raping of 10 year olds

And all of these things were exclusive to Columbus!

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From: SmartMuffin | #022
And all of these things were exclusive to Columbus!

No, but do those people have holidays?

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And all of these things were exclusive to Columbus!

we usually try not to have national holidays about the other people who do those things

In any case what I take from all the history regarding Columbus is that Europeans coming to the Americas caused one of the largest masses of death in our known history. That's not really his fault of course, but it's not one of the more pleasant parts of our history.

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S-Muf why is this on your blog

No, but do those people have holidays?

we usually try not to have national holidays about the other people who do those things

So basically, everyone who was born prior to like 1800 is evil and impossible to celebrate?

That's not really his fault of course, but it's not one of the more pleasant parts of our history.

If it weren't for that, we wouldn't have a history at all.

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From: SmartMuffin | #026
If it weren't for that, we wouldn't have a history at all.

Christopher Columbus, The Father of History.



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