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[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

You know that even Columbus' contemporaries condemned him, right?

Columbus’ cruelty was recognized in his own day. Spanish churchmen condemned him for carrying off women from their husbands and subjecting them to the pleasures of other men. Friar Bartolomeo de las Casas, who accompanied Columbus on his third voyage, wrote, “The silence.” His published accounts included contemporary illustrations of native mothers drowning their children to save them from Spanish cruelty.

https://www.telegram.com/story/news/local/north/2008/10/18/columbus-was-cruel-exploiter-great/52228974007/

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yes. He still did something that changed the face of the world forever.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

So did Hitler. Let's give him a holiday too.

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