r/AskThe_Donald • u/benhaswings EXPERT ⭐ • 14h ago
📰 News 📰 Sail On. Columbus Day is back.
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u/SwissDeathstar NOVICE 13h ago
No. He wasn’t.
Granted he was lucky and an explorer.
But what he did after he discovered America…
Was nothing short of what we would call a Genocide today.
And he definitely didn’t look like that.
Use a real picture at least
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u/XBird_RichardX NOVICE 12h ago
In the context of what he did for the world? Debatable.
In the context of what he did for Spain and the west? Heroic.
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u/SwissDeathstar NOVICE 11h ago
Ah slavery and exploiting civilizations weaker then you.
What great achievements.
Oh and don’t forget the damage on the local wildlife.
Truly heroic.•
u/XBird_RichardX NOVICE 11h ago edited 11h ago
Too much time in the modern era is spent forcing great men to apologize for greatness. It’s idealistic but does not hold up to reality, it just makes you feel morally superior. Civilizations die on a hill of moral universalism.
I do not desire a world where doing nothing is the highest morality.
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u/SwissDeathstar NOVICE 11h ago
It’s just acknowledging their actions.
And seeing them for what they are.
Some things shouldn’t have happened.
But here we are.
We could learn a thing or two if we would acknowledge the things they did.
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u/XBird_RichardX NOVICE 10h ago
Oh no I know what happened with the Tainos of Hispaniola you’re mistaken to claim it’s ignorance
Like I said, demanding apologies for the actions of great men out of moral righteousness only rewards doing nothing.
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u/SwissDeathstar NOVICE 10h ago
Then why celebrate the man?
I don’t understand.
He doesn’t need his day and neither does he need statues made of him.•
u/XBird_RichardX NOVICE 10h ago
Why not
He’s the man that joined two continents
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u/SwissDeathstar NOVICE 9h ago
Yes that’s true.
Deserves a place in the history books.
But just because it’s history.
But celebrating is too much.
Exactly for the things I mentioned earlier.•
u/XBird_RichardX NOVICE 9h ago
I guess you don’t have to if you dont think your existence is tied to his actions, but mine are so I dont think it would be out of place to do so if you so felt inclined.
I am in favor of the statues being in museums to be clear i dont want to see them desecrated
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u/Boccob81 NOVICE 3h ago
Do you realize Spain committed 300 years of atrocities who the indigenous people of Africa and the Americas
Remember, no 300 years of atrocities were an accepted behaviorNothing you can do about it today, so why bring it up
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u/I_am_Wojo 🤡 Faketriot 🦨 7h ago
He was one of the many exiled juices from Spain and the other 108 countries before that. If he didn't accept the mission, then himself and his crew would have been sent packing to another far off foreign land. The Spanish royalty fully expected all of them to die.