10-10-2018, 01:55 PM
(10-10-2018, 01:19 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: I don't disagree with any of this. I will only add to the argument that he wasn't even Neil Armstrong in that he wasn't the first European to set foot in the Americas. But aside from that, he was a piece of shit. His rule as governor was reportedly tyrannical. As for slavery and the indigenous populations, he sure set a precedent with those by selling people into slavery for minor crimes and massacring the inhabitants of the islands.
Yeah I wont argue with any of this either.
Only thing I would say though is I dont know if he really set a precedent though he technically was the first to do so. Because I have to think the ones that came after him from Europe would have still done what they did in terms looking on the natives as godless heathens, thus treating them as such to serve their empirical needs of slave labor and what not. Best way to simplify that down is that Columbus didn't create the slavery mentality and committing massacres, but he came from a culture that bred that way of thinking towards non-Christian primitive peoples. If that makes sense.
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