What is tragic is how Columbus’s atrocities are routinely swept under the rug for the sake of nationalistic hero worship. Forget historic contextualization: we

What is tragic is how Columbus’s atrocities are routinely swept under the rug for the sake of nationalistic hero worship. Forget historic contextualization: we never even covered the sickening extent of what he did to the natives in our high school curriculum. Any student of history should be infuriated by this. (Also, if I recall correctly, his actions were considered brutal even in his own time.)