@BillWa — And now I have to treat you like a reasonable person and respectfully refute your slander with facts. What a burden we high-road people take on!
-I don’t know what your talking about with “cancer”. I’ve never heard it said that Columbus gave the Indians cancer. But he and layter Europeans brought smallpox and other infections that natives had not built up a natural immunity to.
-“Scum” and “noble” are subjective. Let’s stick with objective facts: Columbus opened up the West Indies to slavery, disease, massacre and exploitation. Columbus well-documentedly and uprovokedly murdered hundreds of Taino natives.
-Some people have a funny idea of what “Stone Age” and “do something with” mean. Contrary to popular belief, you do not need an industrialized, crony-capitalist, planet-killing behemoth of a imperialist government to be a civilized society.
@BillWa — And now I have to treat you like a reasonable person and respectfully refute your slander with facts. What a burden we high-road people take on!
-I don’t know what your talking about with “cancer”. I’ve never heard it said that Columbus gave the Indians cancer. But he and layter Europeans brought smallpox and other infections that natives had not built up a natural immunity to.
-“Scum” and “noble” are subjective. Let’s stick with objective facts: Columbus opened up the West Indies to slavery, disease, massacre and exploitation. Columbus well-documentedly and uprovokedly murdered hundreds of Taino natives.
-Some people have a funny idea of what “Stone Age” and “do something with” mean. Contrary to popular belief, you do not need an industrialized, crony-capitalist, planet-killing behemoth of a imperialist government to be a civilized society.
-Nothing justifies slavery. Period.