Columbus. Good or bad?

[Harry Dresden]

dam wops....

 

[martybegan]

Wow, the Nazis should have thought of that. Just give genocide a nice name, and it becomes okay.

Nobody "forgot". Columbus just subscribed to a screwball theory the earth was pear shaped and he could bypass the distance by going north. He was wrong on all counts.

Nazis made specific laws forbidding relations with jews and Germans, hell even Poles and Germans. The Spanish and Portuguese who colonized most of the Carribean and South America had no such qualms.

Easy for you to say centuries later. Talk about not being able to understand the situation at the time.

More of that narcissism you always show.

 

[Innocynioc]

The one who deserves great credit is Columbus' public relations director. People had been traveling to, into and around America for thousands of years when Columbus stumbled into an Island in the Gulf of Mexico and suddenly Columbus discovered America.

 

[JoeB131]

Nazis made specific laws forbidding relations with jews and Germans, hell even Poles and Germans. The Spanish and Portuguese who colonized most of the Carribean and South America had no such qualms.

Easy for you to say centuries later. Talk about not being able to understand the situation at the time.

More of that narcissism you always show.

The Europeans made similar laws about breeding with Native Americans. Didn't stop white folks from raping them, though.

The colonization of the New World was a humanitarian disaster. But it didn't happen to white people, so that made it okay in your eyes.

 

[martybegan]

The Europeans made similar laws about breeding with Native Americans. Didn't stop white folks from raping them, though.

The colonization of the New World was a humanitarian disaster. But it didn't happen to white people, so that made it okay in your eyes.

That's mostly later, and mostly about blacks.

It was inevitable. And the worst stuff was done by southern Europeans, not the usual English/Nordic bugaboos of the left.