America hates Columbus... FACEPALM

[Dandelion]

True, but it didn't have the impact of Christopher Columbus' voyage.

No lasting link between the Old World and the New World, only a very temporary one and they got overrun by the natives with whom they didn't have the best relations. Resources were scarce too, after all.

[RMuller]

He wasn't even a Spaniard. How could Spaniards have the exclusive right to claim him?

Spaniards are the only ones who can claim the "discovery" of the America's. 99.999999999999999% if the crew of the Nina,Pinta and Santa Maria were Spaniards. Colombus was a Spanish citizen. Anyone else trying to claim Colombus are piggy backing.

[Antimage]

Let's say...I'm a thug and a rapist. I rob, rape and kill your mom, but the same blade I used to stab her...bounced from her body and landed on some strange, shiny rock. I as a thug pick up the rock, and take it to some geologists. They conclude it to be an undiscovered source of fuel, cleaner and more efficient than any form of energy previously utilized. I am hailed a hero, the man who discovered infinite, free energy, who, due to his discovery humanity will advance to places never before...


And statues are built of me. Sometimes in the footnote, it is mentioned what I did to your mother, but only as a side mention.

How would you feel about that?

Well interpretation of history is contoversial. Hardly anything is black and white.
Btw. Mohamed(prophet) was a murderer,slave owner and conquerer, or so I heard. Doesn't sound much different from spanish or anglo colonizers. Except anglos created a country where everyone including muslims want to live. And he's central figure of Islam, he's supposed to be a role model for muslims. What do you think about that?

[RMuller]

Spaniards are the only ones who can claim the "discovery" of the America's. 99.999999999999999% if the crew of the Nina,Pinta and Santa Maria were Spaniards. Colombus was a Spanish citizen. Anyone else trying to claim Colombus are piggy backing.

IT WOULD BE Silly if Mexicans wanted to claim Columbus. He never set foot in Mexico.

[Rethel]

Rethel, super leftist retards don't represent the American people. Some vandels in the big cities are wanting to destruct statues of historical figures, and the pathetic city governments are doing it for them, but your average American citizen is appalled by it, and not just on the right.

Aren't you the greatest democracy of all times?
So what you did choose, this you actualy are.
Idiots, who hate Columbus and other historical
figures who made America great... or at all.

[Wadaad]

was a murderer

Wrong. Unless capital punishment = murder...then yes

slave owner and conquerer, or so I heard.

Yes and yes...making those occupations halal. btw, is slave ownership abolished today? Because Mohammed SAAW treated his slaves better than wage slaves are treated by their employers today. Btw, slaves back then were also paid wages or given an allowance, and some were able to accumulate enough wealth to purchase their own freedom. So accusing prophet Mohammed SAAW of being a slaver is exploiting the moral failings of the English language and its vague semantics. If he was a slave owner, so is every corporation today with a HR department and Personnel.

Doesn't sound much different from spanish or anglo colonizers. Except anglos created a country where everyone including muslims want to live. And he's central figure of Islam, he's supposed to be a role model for muslims. What do you think about that?

Oh but it is very different. The places Muslims conquered have their ethnic integrity intact. If Americas was Islamicizied there would be Billions of Amerindians and a small strata of Ashraaf/Syeds/etc with Arab admix. Maybe they would have off-Arab dilemma like many non Arab Muslms, but atleast they would eixist, not rot away in reserves, or face hardship and discrimination in Central and South America.


Finally, Prophet Mohammed SAAW did not force anyone to convert...and anglo-created countries are the way they are only due to liberal social agitation every step of the way, or they would have remained as the founding fathers imagined...the vote solely for, and the constitution representing white propertied males.

[zhaoyun]

Well, Columbus was a certified shitty human being overall. I could care less.

[Oneeye]

Aren't you the greatest democracy of all times?
So what you did choose, this you actualy are.
Idiots, who hate Columbus and other historical
figures who made America great... or at all.

There has been opposition to removing these statues. Americans aren't acting as a monolith to demonize these men. The minority of socialist snowflakes that some politicians are trying to not offend are the only ones destructing government property. They are brainwashed idiots that see the colonization of the Americas as evil capitalism. They hate even George Washington.

The majority of Americans want them to stay, even the confederates.


And I've made a thread highlighting and opposing the destruction of Christopher Columbus and other figures statues.. a while ago. You're late, and your blanket statement is absolutely false and asinine. Goddamn troll.

[EL_BARBARO]

It's funny how Italians managed to sell the lie Colombus was an Italian....

Also here the propapanda main principle goes into effect: a lie repeated the sufficient number of times turns into a truth.

Infuckingcredible.

[EL_BARBARO]

By the way, Colombo was also disliked in Spain, independently of his origin. In fact, he was sent to Spain from the Americas covered with chains due to his crimes and bad practices on those new spanish territories.