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So I studied Human Rights in Uni, and one area of study is Columbus’ first contact in the Caribbean. And he was balls to wall evil. In his treatment of the First Nations he encountered. Monks travelling with him wrote about how evil this was and unsuccessfully appealed to the Vatican to condemn this behaviour.
When people say ‘it way a different time and things were different then” I call it out as bunk.
Wasn’t he sanctioned on his return to Spain because even his own people at the time were like ‘no dawg, that was despicable’?
Yep. Returned to Spain in chains, lost his governorship and lucrative deal with the Spanish crown, and only escaped real punishment because of a mixture of his closeness with the royals, and because finding Spain an entire continent to colonize, even by accident, was considered a valuable prior service.
Sounds like a true American hero.
It’s like when people excuse Jefferson owning a shit ton of slaves as “part of the time” meanwhile his contemporaries John and Samuel Adams were staunchly anti slavery and thought the whole thing was wrong and disgusting.
So if even Jefferson’s own contemporaries could recognize that slavery was evil, he had no excuse
He did rewrite the bible, right?
Kinda seems like he thought he knew better than everyone else.