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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I celebrate both, you can acknowledge both.[/quote]

How?

You can celebrate Hitler and the Jews?[/quote]

Leave Hitler and Jews out of this. They are not comparable.[/quote]

NP. I don’t think comparing tragedies is a winning approach. That said, genocide is genocide. Crazy, evil men get government backing and lots of followers, then use the power they’ve accumulated to spread hatred and death and their actions nearly wipe out entire groups of people. Columbus was a bad guy. He condoned brutality I couldn’t even dream of. Let’s not diminish the atrocities he’s responsible for. [/quote]

What did Columbus do? I know he didn't actually "discover" America if that's the way you wan to see it, but what atrocities took place at that time, that Columbus condoned?[/quote]

Enslavement, murder, rape, theft, dismemberment… the list is long. When his crew couldn’t find enough gold to steal, they issued a quota for indigenous people to fill. If they didn’t bring him enough gold, they’d cut off their hands. When Columbus gave up on gold he captured a bunch as slaves to take back to Europe to sell. Many didn’t survive the voyage. And the rape. So much rape of women and children. Sex slaves, random rapes, whatever the white men wanted. [/quote]

This happened here?[/quote]

Here? In the US? No, because Columbus never actually came here. Another reason it’s odd that he gets a holiday here. [/quote]

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