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Yellow posted...

Best video on Columbus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEw8c6TmzGg&vl=en

I watched the video. I will say he tries to be unbiased for the most part, but I also find his arguments fairly pointless and that his over all conclusion is the same (Columbus should be celebrated), so I do not really see the point of the video.

His arguments seem to break down to mostly the following:

Nobody is all good or all evil, it's not just black or white, but about shades of grey.

My answer is simple, you don't need to celebrate someone who is a shade of grey, and the same can be said of Hitler. I am quite glad we do not have a day celebrating him.

There were much worse people, who committed worse crimes than Columbus.

While some people may claim that Columbus was satan incarnate and the worst person in existence, that was not, and still is not a popular or well known belief. People just think he wasn't a great person, who committed some atrocities and certainly should not be celebrated. Yes there was worse people, there still are. You probably know a few of em, but maybe...you don't know you know them.

Columbus's words were taken out of context and/or mis-translated.

Other then directly refuting a few previous videos, I don't think this was a main reason most people are not a huge fan, and also, I don't think most people either love or hate him, I honestly don't care about him one way or another, nor did most people I know in my life.

There are tons of specific things I could go on about, such as his ties to creating sex slaves, and pedophilia etc, but it would become extremely long. I'd instead just like to state that considering how long his actions have been lauded and exaggerated in a good way, it makes a sort of sense that the reverse is happening more recently. It's backlash for having a person who shouldn't have been a hero in the first place, thrown in the faces of many people who perhaps don't feel like they made out that well when North America was colonized.

In the end, people saying Columbus didn't discover America are (usually) talking about North America, which is true, and that was I believe mentioned in the video as well. I do not personally see any reason his actions should have made him a hero to the level where we actually have a Columbus day in this country, it doesn't make sense, there are better American Heros we could celebrate for sure. What is worse, we are an integrated nation including people who could, and probably do, take affront to celebrating him, which makes absolutely no sense and is in extremely bad taste.

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