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Famed explorer unfairly maligned
Waterbury-Republican American ^
| October 7, 2007
| Editorial
Posted on 10/08/2007 10:56:50 AM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: Graybeard58
I read once that the whole business of Columbus thinking he had found India, thus the naming of “The Indians”, was not at all the case, that Columbus called the indigenous people “Los Indios” which mean “those in God” or the Godly. I wonder if it’s true. Any professors out there?
To: Graybeard58
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posted on
10/08/2007 11:06:09 AM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(("democrat" 'one who panders to the crude and mindless whims of the masses.'))
To: Graybeard58
When in the Bahamas, it’s best not to bring up his name.
To: Graybeard58
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posted on
10/08/2007 11:06:58 AM PDT
by
Gabz
(Don't tell my mom I'm a lobbyist, she thinks I'm a piano player in a whorehouse)
To: Graybeard58
What??? But what about “The Noble Savage”???? You can’t tell me Rousseau was wrong??? ;-)
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posted on
10/08/2007 11:10:53 AM PDT
by
maryz
To: Graybeard58
The unfair maligning of Christopher Columbus and basically any other white European man goes back at least 20 years to its genesis on college campuses.
To: SoCalRight
Indios or indians from the West Indies. Columbus, et al, started naming the islands the West Indies almost as soon they figured they had bumped into something new, not the East Indies (the only Indies at the time) they intended.
And no, I am not a professor nor did I stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night. But I do live in the West Indies.
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posted on
10/08/2007 11:13:43 AM PDT
by
cll
(Carthage must be destroyed)
To: Gabz
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To: Graybeard58
They also claim he was complicit in "the genocide" of Indians through the introduction of infectious diseases. Considering their penchant for ripping people hearts out on pyramids and eating them? Civilization NEEDED to fall in the new world.
A lot of the indian tribes were little better than the Stone Age when they came in contact with the Spanish.
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posted on
10/08/2007 11:26:29 AM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(False modesty is as great a sin as false pride.)
To: SoCalRight
Colombus spoke Italian, and probably Latin and Spanish. The word for “God” in Spanish is “Dio,” not “Indios.” “Indios” is indeed Indians in Spanish.
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posted on
10/08/2007 11:42:36 AM PDT
by
elhombrelibre
(RUN Paul - a man proudly putting al Qaeda's interest ahead of America's.)
To: Graybeard58
The most accurate account is by Flip Wilson.
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posted on
10/08/2007 11:52:24 AM PDT
by
norraad
("What light!">Blues Brothers)
To: elhombrelibre
Correction, “Dios” is God.
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posted on
10/08/2007 11:52:30 AM PDT
by
elhombrelibre
(RUN Paul - a man proudly putting al Qaeda's interest ahead of America's.)
To: Centurion2000
A lot of the indian tribes were little better than the Stone Age when they came in contact with the Spanish. Head south (or north, for that matter) and you'll find several that still are little better than Stone Age.
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posted on
10/08/2007 12:03:40 PM PDT
by
ApplegateRanch
(Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
To: Centurion2000
Ah, Infectious Diseases. Caused by Microbes. A concept that the West would not fully understand for over 300 years.
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posted on
10/08/2007 12:07:10 PM PDT
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: Graybeard58
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posted on
10/08/2007 12:24:35 PM PDT
by
wintertime
(Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid.)
To: Graybeard58
Whatever may have been reported, the use of smallpox as a weapon must have been impractical in colonial times because nobody understood the disease well enough to control it.
The obvious question arises: why did the diseases brought by Europeans wipe out indigenous peoples, and not the other way round? This is not really a difficult question - the Indians were on the edge of starvation already - but to say this is to acknowledge that Western civilization was in an objective sense better than the Indian culture.
To: massgopguy
Your point wins in logic.
I loved the end of “Apocalypto” when the young man looks up after surviving multiple brutal attempts on his life, and there is a Spanish ship out in the bay... with a missionary coming ashore — a beautiful moment....for however long.
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