• PugJesus@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Good. Columbus was a shithead even by the standards of 16th century shitheads.

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      1 year ago

      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.