It gives the impression that Columbus was some genius who knew more than the rest of Europe (or the world at large.) It’s one small part of his heroic treatment in the US for so many years. The town I grew up in still has yearly parades in October commemorating him. (It’s sort of tied up in Italian pride, and there are a lot of proud Italians in that area. So, the celebrations go on.)
The issue people have with Columbus isn’t really that they think he was the only one to know the world was round. The issue is more the atrocious handing of the native people he encountered.
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.
I was taught in school that Christopher Columbus discovered America and was the only one who believed the world was round when he set sail.
That is incorrect, but how is that propaganda?
It gives the impression that Columbus was some genius who knew more than the rest of Europe (or the world at large.) It’s one small part of his heroic treatment in the US for so many years. The town I grew up in still has yearly parades in October commemorating him. (It’s sort of tied up in Italian pride, and there are a lot of proud Italians in that area. So, the celebrations go on.)
The issue people have with Columbus isn’t really that they think he was the only one to know the world was round. The issue is more the atrocious handing of the native people he encountered.
I know. They’re two sides of the same story, I just mentioned the side that’s glorified.
I see nothing wrong in commemorating him. What is the problem with that? What does commemorating an historic figure have to do with propaganda?
He genocided thousands of natives. He’s a piece of shit, lol.
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.
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Lol. What is he taught as? Do you know what the word propaganda means?
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.
Yea, I was taught the same in Europe, except for the round earth part.
Is that propaganda or just lazy elementary level education?
That’s what I grew up with as well in Germany.