Posted on 10/09/2017 3:19:39 AM PDT by Trump20162020
In other words...Happy Columbus Day!
Heaven forbid CNN is forced to comment on the muslims being kicked out of Spain, also in 1492.
Yo snowflake. You exist because of that dark history. If it makes you feel that bad...
LOL! they want it both ways!
Evolution, survival of the fittest, we’re smart and know what’s best, and yes certainly we’ll still remain living in USofA......
while also sobbing how unfair all of the above is.
It’s what I get for expecting the world to be logically-consistent!
As if Columbus intentionally brought disease.
Is the author an idiot?
Disease was a two-way problem.
And as for slavery, Columbus didn’t have plans for slavery either. He set out to find an alternate trade route - one with no Muslims in the way. The old one through the Indian Ocean not only had muslims but it supported an extensive slave trade of its own that had little to do with Europe, a slave trade network never discussed in US history classes and therefore one which current activists are clueless about because it doesn’t help their agenda.
Slavery existed in the Americas before Europeans arrived... and it was no prettier, because no slaves survived to write their story.
Slaves didn’t have a lobby then. Had those empires survived and developed further, slavery and sacrificial rites would not have gone away but would have expanded with demand and with no beasts of burden in the New World [save for some societies’ llamas] slavery would have no end... because New World societies lacked Christianity, they also lacked an ethical or religious reason to ever abolish their forms of slavery and had every reason to expand it to their weaker neighbors.
So even if Columbus never stumbled on them, it would only be a matter of time before someone else did. Being less developed for lack of contact and lack of beasts of burden, they still would have lost to any motivated newcomers who had extensive trade, technology, and animal power.
They don’t even acknowledge that to be a believer in Islam one must belief in slavery in the afterlife...
Funny how liberals never want to talk about the dark history of the Democratic Party.
Nor the dark history of Planned Parenthood and Margaret Sanger.
Nor the dark history of the Communist Party.
Nor the dark history of Che...
Nor the dark history of the SDS...
Nor...
The leftards act like they own every square inch of Earth?
LOL - TRUE and NOT Politically Correct... good one.
Germany wasn’t even a nation when Columbus sailed but a loose assortment of feudal states.
There were various New World nations speaking various languages ...and much later in the north, the British recognized certain Indian nations as such.
The Aztecs were not just a nation, they were an empire of conquest, not merely a single tribe, though they started as one. Incas and Mayas too, were nations. For the most part the other people around were akin to European city-states....
But it’s true there was no single monolithic continent spanning nation. Not that that is even relevant to the issue.
Just a little useful perspective...
It’s called conquest. There are winners and losers. Been going on since the beginning of time and will continue until the end of time.
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