Re: Columbus Day, the history, the people, the fuss, and whatever it all means
Methinks "innate goodness" being attributed to civilizations that we are ignorant of is wishful thinking, romanticism.
Romanticism?
You're parading a psycho who slayed countless brown people as a hero. All of JUB's usual suspects, the same guys who never have two kind words to say about people of color, are in here shrugging their shoulders like "Wuz duh big deal George? I not know why funny dark man no like Columbus party George."
And indigenous peoples have their own civilization, with codes, with transgressors, strata, unfairnesses, corruption, and all the trimmings.
Stop this racist blanket "indigenous people" bullshit. Do you even KNOW the fucking name of WHICH indigenous people he brutalized? Hint: It wasn't the fucking Mayans, it wasn't the fucking Aztecs, it wasn't the Mixtec it wasn't the Olmtec.
And in typical mid-twentieth century bull-headed ignorance you refuse to acknowledge his deplorable actions except in a passive, casual way, asserting that the mere mention of Columbus' crimes is some sort of ploy for emotional currency [and sooner or later foodstamps will somehow be thrown into the mix]. This thread is very dark and very sad. A fucking party for a conquistador. Almost exactly a month after the anniversary of another act of pure evil which we memorialize in an entirely different context. Gosh, what a coincidence how the attitudes change when it's brown villain/white victim vs white villain/brown victim.
-9/11 "never forget"
-hundreds of thousands of Taino people killed/raped/tortured/enslaved "Ok...
and? Like, so what? Like, who cares or whatever? Like, take a chill pill it's just a little child sex slavery and torture but like the Mayans threw somebody off a temple or something so like, it's totes cool you know? Like, and such as.""
Whereas the tribes Columbus encountered may have had child-like naivete, that can by no means be said of the vast empires that held sway in other parts of the Americas. In the Northeast, bitter wars were waged between neighbors. In Central America and South America, full-on slavery and oppression was the rule for the great empires there.
First of all, congratulations on your first foray into honesty in this thread. Somewhat. But of course you fuck it up by going on another racist tangent about how it was ok for Columbus to do what he did to the Arawakan people because other cultures they were not even a part of were violent. You know who else says shit like that?
Muslim terrorists. "It's ok to kill innocent Americans because their army killed some of ours." And oh the righteous indignation you all will be filled with at the brown people's merciless killing. Cuz it's wrong unless wypipo do it, then it's just the way the world works.
You know who else says shit like that? Violent gangs. They got a problem with somebody who lives in my neighborhood so
I'm a fair target cuz "Some other people in approximately the same time and geographic location did some bad shit."
When your rhetoric sounds like violent street gangs and Islamic terrorist apologia, you're doing humanity wrong.
This thread is white terrorism disguised as patriotism. As per usual. Bunch of tone-deaf white guys sitting around jerking off to another "hero," who brutalized people of color. And when somebody calls it out.... "Quit yer whinin bro I'm about to c*m." pretending to be unaware of how/why brown people aren't on board with this. And the fact that it offends brown people, let's be honest, contributes greatly to the enjoyment.
