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Bro, Columbus Day is celebrated in Latin America. If it weren?t for Columbus, Spain wouldn?t have dominated Central or South America in the first place.Colombus wasn't italian
He never wrote in ligurian.
He wrote 90 percent of the time in spanish.
But he knew portuguese latin greek and hebrew.
Colombus left spain right before the expulsion of the jews.
He was part jewish
He never named one island or place in the carribean after a place in italy
But he did name them after places in spain and portugal
Including la hispanola, santa lucia, cuba, curacao ect.
He married a portuguese noble woman.
None of his children were born in italy.
So how could she marry a poor foreigner?
He was refered with the title of don in writing with spain before setting out to the new world
Also colombus did commit a genocide
He was striped of his title as a result of it by queen Isabella. But she died not too soon afterwords.
But you if you praised hitler [emoji848]
But colombus [emoji119]
He literally had nothing to do with america
He has statues everywhere but bartolome de las Casas doesn't. Why is that?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.in...-as-it-lays-claim-to-columbus-421487.html?amp
@Wanderer ...imho you’re repeating bias, resentment, jealousy, cultural appropriation, and racist anti-Italian propaganda.
It is not unique to Columbus, they’ve been doing it for years with the Romans, the Etruscans, the Latins, … they also do it to the Greeks, the Egyptians, and historical figures as Alexander, even to Hannibal and many more.
They use an inversion of reality to gaslight the opposition. Woke propaganda keeps people asleep. They had to Crack down on the internet, and put the FBI against people with opposing views. I look forward to the end of this reign of terror; nothing lasts forever. One day, Wokeness will destroy itself like communism did before it, in the USSR. When you have a society based on an ideal rather than merit and pragmatism, it will eventually fail. One day, we will have our Chernobyl, which will lead to a collapse. The government will grow large and more impotent, more incompetent and corrupt. Corporations will fail, because instead of choosing the best, they will be forced to hire people based on their identity, which should be irrelevant. One day, the USA will most likely fragment into smaller states, I'd bet.Cancel culture dominates, it dictates resentment, envy (yes, hatred and stupidity);The white man conquered, colonized, enslaved - his achievements are to be desecrated. Civilization and Enlightenment are visibly despised: punished ... the rabble Marxism - element suppresses spirit, beauty, poetry, the individual, and intelligence.
The woke mob and elitists are now resorting to using another trick next to the race card. They just deny the existence of cancel culture, political correctness and the killing of free speech. Hence, you read all over the internet articles which emphatically assert, that PC and Cancel culture only exist in the minds of paranoid right-wingers and conspiracy theorists and ain't real.
I'm interested to see what happens in the Virginia governor's race. My hunch is that the Democrats may lose in the suburbs again. It was suburbanite women, in particular, who gave the election to Biden.
Covid had one positive effect. Mothers saw what the schools were teaching their children in a detailed, comprehensive way, and what they are teaching them is Critical Race Theory. Worse yet, they see programs for the gifted and talented being eliminated in the name of equality. If some students aren't capable of doing above average work, then we'll just eliminate the programs and schools for the ones who can and that way the disparity won't be obvious. One pillar of the American Dream is that through intellectual excellence, through a meritocracy, you can rise and your children along with you. If parents really understand what is happening it just may motivate them to turn against the Democrats.
It should be obvious how disastrous a policy like this would be for the society as a whole; our entire way of life is at stake.
As for the rest, it was the way of the world. The Aztecs built their own empire, and prisoners were sacrificed to their gods. Indian tribe fought Indian tribe. The New World was no Garden of Eden, and there are no "Noble Savages". That was romantic poppycock. There are just people, who have always acted just like people.
Look at what happened to Italy when Rome fell. Should we tell the Germans and Austrians to tear down all their statues of the "Holy Roman Emperors"? Maybe the Spanish should tear down all their statues to Charles V after how his troops despoiled Italy, his German troops even stabling their horses in St. Peter's. Or perhaps we should never put on another performance of Henry V because he tried to conquer France.
As always, you completely miss my point, deliberately perhaps. I didn't say the Europeans were noble; that they weren't was a given. I also specifically added that "There are just people, who have always acted just like people.Ailchu;633067]and in return, there are also no noble civilized people.
i'm not going to comment on whether people in america should have Columbus day or not, but that comparision is not exactly accurate. if those statues of germanic conquerors would be standing in italian cities because of large germanic populations still living there and admiring/celebrating those conquerors then it would be more comparable.
As always, you completely miss my point, deliberately perhaps. I didn't say the Europeans were noble; that was a given. I also specifically added that "There are just people, who have always acted just like people.
Try to get over your bias against me and give me my due when warranted, as I do with you.
The only difference is that as an Italian citizen I have no power to compel the Germans to tear those statues down, even though we're all supposed to be Europeans living in one union, yes? Hell, as an Italian citizen I didn't even get the chance to force Germany to surrender the monsters in both the Wehrmacht and the SS to our justice system for their atrocities in Italy. I think that's a lot more important than some freaking statues.
Plus, Italians have a tendency to give even their conquerors their due, a trait I don't find altogether admirable; lots of statues of Frederick II around. They're quite fond of him in Foggia where he lived for much of his life and which he loved. Not so much in the cities of the north which grew out of the communes.
My point is that history is history. I object to anyone trying to obliterate signs of the past because they dislike it. It's like the Taliban toppling statues of the Buddha. I'll grant you I can see why people wouldn't want a statue of Jefferson Davis around, just as I wouldn't want one of Mussolini in Italy, although I don't mean to draw a comparison between the two as the scale is completely different. However, there's a point where you have to draw the line. Should all statues of the Kings of Savoy and their spouses be torn down because the last one was a weakling and a coward? Should the statues of all the kings and queens of the past be torn down because now we're a democracy?
To pretend that all the founding fathers had slaves or were even in favor of slavery is a lie, but it's a lie taught as part of this curriculum. The idiots writing that curriculum are either deliberately lying or they slept through their American history courses because they were stoned.
Not all the founding fathers were racists but a hell of a lot of them were. Even George Washington was but he freed his because he thought that slavery was not economically sustainable, not for any moral reasons. Slavery was debated hotly during the Constitutional Convention. Without the following articles and clauses protecting slavery there would have been no Constitution and no United States.
Article I, Section. 2 [Slaves count as 3/5 persons]
Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons [i.e., slaves].
Article I, Section. 9, clause 1. [No power to ban slavery until 1808]
The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.
Article IV, Section. 2. [Free states cannot protect slaves]
No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labour, but shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be due.
Article V [No Constitutional Amendment to Ban Slavery Until 1808]
...No Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article.
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