Wish i could give him smallpox.
As long as we're wishing, I'm going with bigpox.
~~Sm~~allpox.
Allpox
i can't help but wonder if there isn't some more useful science that these scientists could be doing (i write, while reading garbage on the internet)
I don't know, I think they did a great service to every indigenous person in both Americas by revealing the source of all of their centuries of pain and suffering.
Now they know where to install the urinal
Yeah, because if Columbus hadn't discovered the Americas, no one would have, and the Natives would still be living free and unmolested to this day. Solid point.
Sure. And if Hitler didn’t exist, someone else would finish the job of killing off the Jews of Europe that had been going on for centuries. So Adolf Hitler absolved, am I right?
Straight to Godwin, huh? Not to mention it's hardly a good comparison. Spain and Europe's empire expansion philosophy as a whole would have led to the same result once the New World was discovered. If you disagree with that, then I don't know how to talk to you about this topic. It's obviously a totally different case than what Hitler did.
Edit: Just to clarify, I'm not saying Columbus wasn't a terrible human being, just that even if he was a saint, the outcome for indigenous peoples on this continent would have been the same. If you want to focus your hatred on one man as the source of all the suffering and genocide here, I'd probably go with Cortez over Columbus, but it would still be misplaced hatred
Cool. Another person who doesn't understand what Godwin's law was:
"As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1."
Which is not what I was doing, I was explaining how you are absolving a monster because someone else would have done it eventually (ignoring the fact that his atrocities were so awful that the Spanish royals even told him to cut that shit out, literally bringing him back to Spain in chains).
Even Mike Godwin thinks you've missed the point:
My feeling was that the more people got into this habit, the less likely that people remembered the historical context of all this. And as you know, one of the injunctions of Holocaust historians is that we must never forget, we have to remember. And I just thought, Well, I’m going to do a little experiment and see if I could make people remember.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2013/03/godwins-law-mike-godwin-hitler-nazi-comparisons.html
I was literally putting something in historical context and literally talking about the actual Holocaust.
But the main thing is that Columbus was so bad that even people at the time said he was a monster:
Bobadilla collected the testimonies of 23 people who had seen or heard about the treatment meted out by Columbus and his brothers. "Even those who loved him had to admit the atrocities that had taken place," Ms Varela said.
Columbus and his brothers were forced to travel back to Spain. Columbus was in chains but, although he never recovered his titles, he was set free and allowed to sail back to the Caribbean.
"Columbus and his brothers come across in the text as tyrants," Ms Varela said. "Now one can understand why he was sacked and we can see that there were good reasons for doing so.
"The monarchs wanted someone who did not give them problems. Columbus did not solve problems, he created them."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/aug/07/books.spain
I'm sure you'll continue to try to do this silly "we can't vilify Columbus for starting off centuries of genocide and oppression because someone else just as bad could have come along," but hopefully everyone else will figure out that he was one of the greatest monsters in human history.
Thanks. Now I know where to take a shit if I'm ever in Seville.
Visited this Cathedral when I was in Seville and was surprised to see it.
I then ruined the mood for the group by asking why one of the biggest Catholic churches in the world has one of the world’s most famous slavers buried there Lmao
I've been to Seville myself .. never wanted to go visit the tomb of a celebrated psychopath
But one of the great things I learned from the Spanish from a young university student at a government protest one day (the Spanish are always ready to protest) .... their history is written in their national flag ..... two red bands between a yellow one ... a river of gold between two rivers of blood.
Did they not have a ready answer for that? I would think they would get it regularly enough to have one. Maybe not.
It was a group of family and friends lol. I wouldn’t expect them to have a good answer for that
Oh sorry, I thought you meant you brought it up to a tour guide.
Now I know where to take a piss if I'm ever in Spain.
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Nah, I'll be heading to Seville cathedral.
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