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Colombus was a Bastard Man. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Preempting all the "he was a man of his time" apologists:

Columbus was arrested during his lifetime because his actions were considered awful by his contemporaries.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

Specifically, Columbus was the first transatlantic slaver - although he went in the nontraditional West-to-East direction. And was imprisoned by Queen Isabel for that shit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Worst part is, he wouldn't be arrested for genocide in 2024. He would probably be seen as lesser of two evils or something stupid like that.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago

Something savages something something terrorism

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

He'd probably be Trump's running mate.