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That does not take away the relevance of his discovery.
He discovered a land with hundreds of millions of people already living there. Then the Europeans genocided the fuck out of them. He should be remembered as one of histories greatest villains, not a fun adventurer.
Lol. What is he taught as? Do you know what the word propaganda means?
I dunno if you noticed but the definition has absolutely nothing to do with being in public office, lol. People are being persuaded into believing Columbus was a fun explorer and he's the reason civility was brought to the americas, when in fact the only export was barbarism, death, famine, and bloodshed.
You are not immune to propaganda.
I am afraid we understand the meaning of propaganda in a different way. Good and bad is a huge simplification, but I do agree with you on that.
I do not think this does push towards certain positions, for one because these are facts which happened a long time ago; even rewriting history completely about that time does not have a huge impact on current times in my opinion.
But sure, go ahead and call me stupid.
Lol.
Don't worry, I will!
He didn't discover America either.
People were there, it is obvious he was not the first human to get there. So what?
The fact that he went there significantly changed the lives of people living in Europe and people living in the Americas for the following centuries.
Yeah, and that is the damn problem. The change was for the worse.
A valid opinion, should history only record people who made great changes to the world and forget about the ones which did bad changes?