BREAKING: Donald Trump announces reinstating ‘Columbus Day’ in honor of Christopher Columbus | #MAGA 🦅

[malleymal]

Ahhhh the weekly “let’s fire up the base, media, and opposition with bullshyt arguments, while we do the truly heinous shyt elsewhere” routine

 

[Oatmeal]

I saw a cartoon from Prager U where Christopher Columbus defended being a slave owner on the basis of it was normal for his time and that people had no right to judge him.

I bet those people agree that it was also ok for 40 year old men to impregnate 14 year old girls too


Folks just want to have history rewritten and sanitized because the truth is ugly. They better not come for Juneteenth either.

 

[Swing]

Spain actually put Columbus in prison for his treatment of natives and settlers. (He also never landed in North America)

For about a month

Got all his money back and they financed a trip back to the Americas

 

[peppe]

Native americans looking at that message like

 

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I saw a cartoon from Frager U

 

[3rdWorld]

Bothsiders..

 

[Ironman]

 

[BlackJesus]

The nasheedites are quiet as a church mouse

 

[Starman]

Also how did he find America if people was already living here? He was just the first Cac to come here to steal land The dynamic behind the holiday is dead and no one can just and celebrate Columbus Day without the bullshyt coming up in conversation.

You answered your own question immediately afterwards. To Europeans, Columbus introduced previously unknown lands. The New World.

It's about perspective.