Columbus Day Dummy Style

[zeitgeist]

Loaded up with white guilt, first we bash Columbus, then in November we kick a little Pilgrim ass.  Dummies are so predictable.

Orwellian_Ghost  (1000+ posts)        Mon Oct-12-09 10:44 AM
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WANTED: CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS: GRAND THEFT, GENOCIDE, RACISM





"One who has gold," observed Christopher Columbus in his travel log, "does as he wills in the world, and it even sends souls to Paradise."


Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress

by Howard Zinn

The treatment of heroes (Columbus) and their victims (the Arawaks)-the quiet acceptance of conquest and murder in the name of progress-is only one aspect of a certain approach to history, in which the past is told from the point of view of governments, conquerors, diplomats, leaders. It is as if they, like Columbus, deserve universal acceptance, as if they-the Founding Fathers, Jackson, Lincoln, Wilson, Roosevelt, Kennedy, the leading members of Congress, the famous Justices of the Supreme Court-represent the nation as a whole. The pretense is that there really is such a thing as "the United States," subject to occasional conflicts and quarrels, but fundamentally a community of people with common interests. It is as if there really is a "national interest" represented in the Constitution, in territorial expansion, in the laws passed by Congress, the decisions of the courts, the development of capitalism, the culture of education and the mass media.
{snip}

This is just one of the many bash Columbus threads available at the dump today.  Poor dummies, so much guilt.

Buzz Clik  (1000+ posts)      Mon Oct-12-09 11:05 AM
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1. Oh, yeah. Columbus Day. Always a fun holiday at DU.
 

Well, at least there are some honest whores at this bitch fest.

Thickasabrick  (1000+ posts)      Mon Oct-12-09 03:49 PM
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37. Columbus sucked. We should switch him for somebody worthy - I don't
 want to give up the day

 

[Carl]

Your self inflicted misery gives me great pleasure DUmmies.

[thundley4]

It's not exactly like the native Americans were peaceful and weren't trying to commit genocide against the other tribes now is it? 

[Ralph Wiggum]

Buzz Clik nailed it.  They do this every year at the DUmp.

[GOBUCKS]

The only holidays that don't outrage democrats are MLK and Labor Day.

It would not be surprising if they push to make the commie May 1 a holiday.

And Ramadan, the only holiday period in the world that celebrates a motel chain.

[Chris]

Buzz Clik nailed it.  They do this every year at the DUmp.

Their Columbus Day threads write themselves.

[franksolich]

It's not exactly like the native Americans were peaceful and weren't trying to commit genocide against the other tribes now is it?

Mari Sandoz, the greatest author to come out of Nebraska, was known to be a remarkable scholar of the Native Americans.

Mari Sandoz was sympathetic to their plight.

But at the same time, Mari Sandoz pointed out that Native Americans were notoriously cruel, sadistic, homocidal, genocidal, towards both their own, and other Native Americans.  It's not a pretty story.

[Toastedturningtidelegs]

[ notoriously cruel, sadistic, homocidal, genocidal, towards both their own,/quote]Frank not to be argumentative but couldn't you pretty much say that about "man" period at different times throughout history? The same adjectives you used above could also be used to describe The British Empire at one time and European Americans during Slavery and The Indian Wars. I don't necessarily agree that it's just an Indian thing but a human thing! Sorry if i may have a red ass about this topic as I myself am part Native.

[thundley4]

[ notoriously cruel, sadistic, homocidal, genocidal, towards both their own,/quote]Frank not to be argumentative but couldn't you pretty much say that about "man" period at different times throughout history? The same adjectives you used above could also be used to describe The British Empire at one time and European Americans during Slavery and The Indian Wars. I don't necessarily agree that it's just an Indian thing but a human thing! Sorry if i may have a red ass about this topic as I myself am part Native.

I think the main point that Frank was making and that I also had implied, was that this continent was no Garden of Eden before the Europeans landed.  The indian tribes were no less violent towards one another than other nations were.  Many of the "anti-Columbus" types try to pretend that there was some sort of Utopian lifestyle being practiced in the New World until the White Devils showed up.

[NHSparky]

Looks like the poster one of my high school classmates and FB friends put up.  Amazing--here was a guy who spent two years in Tibet with the Peace Corps, probably saw as much crap as I did vis-a-vis the evils of Communism, yet he's as dyed-in-the-wool leftist as you'll find.  I'm still wrapping my head around that one.

[franksolich]

author=thundley4 link=topic=35035.msg370791#msg370791 date=1255437100]
I think the main point that Frank was making and that I also had implied, was that this continent was no Garden of Eden before the Europeans landed.  The indian tribes were no less violent towards one another than other nations were.  Many of the "anti-Columbus" types try to pretend that there was some sort of Utopian lifestyle being practiced in the New World until the White Devils showed up.

Yes, that is what I meant, sir.

[Wineslob]

LOLZ! The DUmmies are really DUmb. Here's a kids report on good old Chris:

Columbus actually landed on a small island in the Bahamas which Columbus named San Salvador.
Columbus thought he had landed on the Spice Islands near India. This is why he named the people he met Indians.

Columbus died in 1506 still believing that he had found a new route to the East Indies.

http://www.kidport.com/REFLIB/UsaHistory/Columbus/Columbus.htm

[Ralph Wiggum]

Their Columbus Day threads write themselves.

Haven't seen that in quite a while, thanks for the chuckle, Chris.

[GOBUCKS]

Mari Sandoz, the greatest author to come out of Nebraska, was known to be a remarkable scholar of the Native Americans.

The Jets' quarterback?

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Papa Bunny was 1/2 Carib indian...from which the Carribean Islands draw their name.

They were cannibals.

I wonder if the DUmmies endorse cannibalism and lament its being extinguished in the islands by Christians who found such practices abhorrent?

[Ptarmigan]

Well, Columbus just landed in America. He did not kill anyone.

[diesel driver]

Papa Bunny was 1/2 Carib indian...from which the Carribean Islands draw their name.

They were cannibals.

I wonder if the DUmmies endorse cannibalism and lament its being extinguished in the islands by Christians who found such practices abhorrent?

Of course they would.  It was the Christians forcing their religious views and values on the poor Indians....

[GOBUCKS]

Papa Bunny was 1/2 Carib indian...from which the Carribean Islands draw their name.

They were cannibals.

I wonder if the DUmmies endorse cannibalism and lament its being extinguished in the islands by Christians who found such practices abhorrent?

Well, here in the 21st century the DUmmies worship Kong. How primitive is that?