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In reply to the discussion: Having cities named after Columbus, along with a holiday honoring him, is a national disgrace. [View all]jcmaine72
(1,783 posts)20. It's staggers the mind the extent to which some will go to rationalize and even defend the
indefensible. It kinda reminds me of the old "Mussolini defense", where when all else fails, you remind his detractors that at least he made the trains run on time. That those same trains would someday be used to carry Jews & Gypsies to Nazi concentration in Eastern Europe is an inconvenient fact that always somehow ends dropped by the wayside.
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Having cities named after Columbus, along with a holiday honoring him, is a national disgrace. [View all]
jcmaine72
Oct 2017
OP
So, those things are not his legacy? Can you please tell me what you think his legacy entails....
jcmaine72
Oct 2017
#5
Here are some irrefutable facts for you about Columbus that you have obviously missed:
jcmaine72
Oct 2017
#9
Smallpox, measles, a lot of stuff the indigenes had NO IMMUNITY TO. People from one sick village...
Hekate
Oct 2017
#60
Exactly. Human history is ... human. All the good, all the bad, all the beauty, all the horror.
Hekate
Oct 2017
#69
If we allow our biases all relevant definitions, it seems 'discover' yet works,
LanternWaste
Oct 2017
#92
Unless you are native American, were it not for Columbus you would not be here
question everything
Oct 2017
#2
It's staggers the mind the extent to which some will go to rationalize and even defend the
jcmaine72
Oct 2017
#20
No, it staggersthe mind to belittle the aspirations and the hope of so many generations
question everything
Oct 2017
#25
Weak sauce. Making Columbus the poster boy of the "huddled masses" when in reality...
jcmaine72
Oct 2017
#35
No, Columbus did not suggest the huddle masses and you know perfectly well
question everything
Oct 2017
#38
You seemed obsessed with my ancestry, as if that somehow refutes the facts about Columbus
jcmaine72
Oct 2017
#49
Of course not. We wouldn't want anyone to think we'd ever do anything as declasse as not honor the..
jcmaine72
Oct 2017
#15
Did you know the price of chopped chicken liver in Flatbush is $14.95 per pound?
jcmaine72
Oct 2017
#37
Was Amerigo Vespucci innocent of similar atorcities? No. And our COUNTRY is named after him.
JoeStuckInOH
Oct 2017
#17
No, but you could consider a viable alternative to such a ridiculously asinine overreaction:
jcmaine72
Oct 2017
#22
Exactly! Because acknowledging past atrocities and showing any degree of sensitivity towards the
jcmaine72
Oct 2017
#39
Seems like just about everythng is 'a national disgrace' for one reason or other these days.
WillowTree
Oct 2017
#26
That'll happen in about 50 years or so when white people are a minority
Spider Jerusalem
Oct 2017
#58