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Gross. What's wrong with you?
by khaki54 2y ago
Gross. What's wrong with you?
- krapp 2y ago[flagged]
- khaki54 2y ago[flagged]
- atlas_hugged 2y ago[flagged]
- dang 2y agoSince you've continued to break the site guidelines egregiously and ignored our requests to stop, I've banned the account. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. (No, this has nothing to do with your views on Christopher Columbus or any other topic.)
- atlas_hugged 2y ago[dead]
- krapp 2y ago> Saying a bunch of deranged stuff with progressive buzzwords sprinkled in doesn't make it appropriate or correct. I mean, accusing me of being Nazi adjacent because I'm opposed to slavery seems deranged, but you do you.
- MisterBastahrd 2y agoMakes perfect sense to go to the people who practically worship the guy when you want to know factual details about his history.
- emseetech 2y ago| Actual historical accounts tell something much closer to the the original story we knew as children Anyone who thinks this is remotely true should read A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies by Bartolomé de las Casas.
- Dalewyn 2y ago[flagged]
- krapp 2y agoI'm judging Columbus by the standards of his own day. Spain ordered Columbus not to take slaves from the Caribbean - they wanted to colonize the land and convert the locals, but Columbus enslaved the population anyway, and shipped them to Spain by the boatload. And his governorship of the place was so brutal and cruel he was arrested and taken away in chains. Contemporary accounts by missionaries judge him the same way.
- davoneus 2y agoI wouldn't believe any missionaries statements of fact. After all, their history is as bad or worse than Columbus wrt the treatment of the native peoples in the Americas.
- atlas_hugged 2y agoMuch thuggery. Much shifty. Much euphemism. Much denialism.
- Wytwwww 2y ago> their history is as bad or worse than Columbus Really? That seems like an absurd statement.
- ywvcbk 2y ago> deranged? Can you elaborate what do you mean by that?
- Dalewyn 2y agoWe are going out of our way to repaint history in the worst way possible using standards that should not be applied. No wonder people are so miserable and divided these days when we are led to be miserable in everything.
- ywvcbk 2y ago> was one of the most evil men > If anyone's corpse deserves a pissing on, it would be his. That's a strong statement. I mean he was obviously very cruel and greedy but I don't see how he was particularly exceptional in that way compared to thousands of other historical figures (we can call all of them one of the most evil men in history but that just makes the term meaningless..). Even in the same ~50 year timeframe his direct "achievements" pale to compared to those of Cortés, Pizzaro.