Why Worship a Perverted Criminal?

Christopher Columbus exposed

People engaged in hideous acts long before the Marquis de Sade, yet that genius is reviled, while Christopher Columbus is somehow a “hero” to many [though not the indigenous peoples!] and has a federal holiday in his name.

Permite me to discuss a few points raised in an article about Columbus, which suggests that his legacy makes him altogether unworthy of such an honor.

<< Columbus himself wrote: “Now that so much gold is found, a dispute arises as to which brings more profit, whether to go about robbing or to go to the mines. A hundred castenelloes are as easily obtained for a woman as for a farm, and it is very general and there are plenty of dealers who go about looking for girls; those from nine to ten are now in demand.”

That is right. Apparently Columbus was not just a sex trafficker, but a child sex trafficker. >>

COMMENT: What’s next — a federal holiday in honor of Jeffrey Epstein?

<< In his book, Las Casas claims that, at one point, after Columbus’s slave workers quickly began to die at an exponential rate due to mistreatment and disease, Columbus himself issued a decree that every native over the age of thirteen was required to supply him with one hawk’s bell full of gold powder every three months. Those who brought the proper amount of gold were given copper tokens to wear around their necks. If any Spaniard caught a native without a visible copper token, he was required to chop the native’s hands off and leave him to die of blood loss. >>

COMMENT: Apologies, but this paragraph makes the sadist who flogs his consensual masochist with barbed wire look like a choir boy.

<< If the things Columbus himself did were not horrible enough, his legacy was even worse. Bartolomé de las Casas gives extensive accounts of the brutality of the Spanish colonists in the Caribbean who followed in Columbus’s footsteps. The following passage is just a brief representative example:

“They forced their way into native settlements, slaughtering everyone they found there, including small children, old men, pregnant women, and even women who had just given birth. They hacked them to pieces, slicing open their bellies with their swords as though they were so many sheep herded into a pen. They even laid wagers on whether they could manage to slice a man in two at a stroke, or cut an individual’s head from his body, or disembowel him with a single blow of their axes. They grabbed suckling infants by the feet and, ripping them from their mothers’ breasts, dashed them headlong against the rocks. Others, laughing and joking all the while, threw them over their shoulders into a river, shouting, ‘Wriggle, you little perisher.'” >>

The Marquis de Sade (whose name is so reviled) would doubtless quip, “How could they commist such abominable acts, unless those deeds stiffened their pricks?” I must ask the same question.

Bottom Line: As this rather dated article explains in far more detail, Columbus does NOT deserve the adulation of a hero or a federal holiday.

Disclaimer: Kindly note that I am a first-generation immigrant of Italian descent.

Complete url: https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2018/10/12/why-are-we-still-celebrating-columbus-day/