Good. Columbus was a shithead even by the standards of 16th century shitheads.
Contemporary observers were talking about how much of a shithead he was. It’s pretty safe to say he was a shithead.
The fact that people with an agenda managed to retroactively make him into a glorified hero centuries later says more about our current culture than it says about Columbus’s contemporaries 500 years ago.
Nothing is quite so disgusting than realizing all the bullshit we were fed about him back when I was in school.
He did do something no person in the world had done before. He may be a shithead , but his impact is undeniable.
If you’re talking about DiScOvErInG the the new world, both the Irish and the Vikings beat him to it
What did he do?
He went looking for money and did a genocide.
Sleep with the queen of Spain. But yeah let’s be honest, he wasn’t exactly the first.
documented the americas which brought its attention to europe
Happy birthday to the GROUND!
MY DADS NOT A PHONE! DUH!!
My dad is not a quill and parchment.
Kiss the curb you shitty bitch. (Talking to Cristobal there.)
unsure if illustration or heavily HDR fried picture
Porque no los dos? 🤷
Arguably the only thing he actually discovered.
He discovered that the floor is made up of floor
What is this, colonialisation for ants!
One of my favorite parts about this new holiday is just how much it pisses off bigots.
Happy Columbus Day OP.
That’s Thursday, nimbus.
I AM MISTER NIMBUS!!
That’s today. They deliberately tried to make an indigenous people’s day because they didn’t want Columbus Day. We still have Columbus Day today.
Backwards people might still have a columbus day, those of us in 2023 celebrate IPD instead
My people celebrate “huh? We have Monday off next week? Nice.”
We celebrate it several times a year.
Which was a total cop-out.
You don’t reform by renaming Evil Guy Day to Victims Day.
You drop it from the calendar to make outcasts of anyone who still celebrates the guy.
