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Old 10-11-2018, 10:45 AM
 
Location: Plymouth Meeting, PA.
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No I don't and if you think about it, just about every continent on this planet was raped pillaged or whatever.
If Columbus didn't do it, someone else would have.
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Old 10-11-2018, 01:02 PM
 
Location: Silicon Valley, CA
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No I don't and if you think about it, just about every continent on this planet was raped pillaged or whatever.
If Columbus didn't do it, someone else would have.
Perhaps, but we don't have to bonor him. It's like keeping up Confederate statues.
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Old 10-11-2018, 01:06 PM
 
Location: IL
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who cares? dude died like 500 years ago.
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Old 10-11-2018, 01:10 PM
 
Location: IL
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Perhaps, but we don't have to bonor him. It's like keeping up Confederate statues.
no need to be bonor'ing anyone. history is history whether you like it or not, warts and all. this need to whitewash history by the left is absurd.

you cannot judge someone who lived 500 years ago by the social norms of today. people used to practice hammurabi's code. they used to stone people in public in biblical times. were all those people bad because we wouldnt do those things today? total nonsense.
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Old 10-11-2018, 01:19 PM
 
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Answer to the OP: not entirely, no.

I recommend the first half of this book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...ican_Holocaust
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Old 10-11-2018, 01:22 PM
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First, there were no natives. All of our ancestors migrated here from somewhere else. Second, if we are going to remember history let's remember all of it not just the one that favors one or the other side of the story. There were guilty parties and atrocities committed by both sides. You cannot use the past and how things were done back then as reason to compare it to today. Third, no one alive today is responsible for what happened in the past and dwelling on it serves no purpose.
They were here about 15,000-20,000 years before European colonists that's pretty damn native I would say.
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Old 10-11-2018, 04:22 PM
 
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The natives were hardly welcoming for instance the Iroquois were renowned for their cruelty towards other human beings. Scholars know that they ruthlessly tortured war prisoners and that they were cannibals; in the Algonquin tongue the word Mohawk actually means "flesh-eater."

Indian tribes attacked and killed each other, and throughout the centuries lots of cruelty went on however it now seems that the only people to blame are people like Columbus or indeed white males.

People of other cultures can be just if not more cruel and this has been the case throughout history, indeed a lot of tribes in Africa still hate each other, the Muslims don't even like each other, the South American tribes have been replaced by organised crime but are equally cruel and in Asia there is a streak of cruelty that has been evident throughout the centuries, including during WW2 and under Mao's leadership of China.

Leftwing liberals can revise history to meet their agenda, but there have been inhuman acts carried out by many races, by women, by lots of religions (and religous wars) and such acts are not confined to white males.

What happened during Columbus's time is not well documented and for people to jump to all kinds of conclusions and blame him for numerous things is rather pathetic and to be honest setting foot on foreign shores at the time was often dangerous and the natives would often attack and kill people.
It sounds like the "savage Native American" stereotype aptly applies to many meners of the Iroquois. I say that because obviously not all members of this tribe were cruel.
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Old 10-11-2018, 04:30 PM
 
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The discovery of north America was inevitable. One Sea fairing nation or another was bound to. Along with who ever stumbled across America, they would also bring advanced technology and bacteria and viruses. Native Americans never really had a chance.
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Old 10-11-2018, 07:16 PM
 
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Italian Americans have many other celebrated figures who they could honor - such as Garibaldi, Enrico Fermi, Marconi. There are some who are starting to question that connection with Columbus....

https://www.americamagazine.org/poli...better-holiday

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/...q0J/story.html
No thanks. I'll continue to honor European discovery and colonization, and no liberals or any anti-whites will stop me.
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Old 10-11-2018, 07:20 PM
 
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The discovery of north America was inevitable. One Sea fairing nation or another was bound to. Along with who ever stumbled across America, they would also bring advanced technology and bacteria and viruses. Native Americans never really had a chance.
People forget the black death believed to have came from East Asia nearly wiped out Europeans just about a century before Columbus's voyage. Fortunately Europeans made a glorious recovery.
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