Reasons why people hate Columbus Day:
Columbus wasn’t the first European to discover America. A Viking called Leif Ericson is believed by many historians to have founded a Norse village approximately 500 years earlier. But even so, the Native Americans discovered North America about 14,000 years before Columbus had even been born.
He stole the land of the very first Native Americans he met. He sold their women - and children - to his men for sexual slavery. The children his men desired were usually 9-10 years old. They were children. He worked the Natives to death in gold mines, and in two years half the population of the original natives were dead.
For those Native Americans who didn’t do as they were told, or not to his liking, he had their hands cut off. On his return trip to America, he brought along dogs and canons. If a native tried to escape slavery, he’d either burn them alive or set the dogs on them. The Arawak children would be used as meals for the hounds.
An exert from the Huffington’s post about this subject, full article found here:
One of Columbus’ men, Bartolome De Las Casas, was so mortified by Columbus’ brutal atrocities against the native peoples, that he quit working for Columbus and became a Catholic priest. He described how the Spaniards under Columbus’ command cut off the legs of children who ran from them, to test the sharpness of their blades. According to De Las Casas, the men made bets as to who, with one sweep of his sword, could cut a person in half. He says that Columbus’ men poured people full of boiling soap. In a single day, De Las Casas was an eye witness as the Spanish soldiers dismembered, beheaded, or raped 3000 native people. “Such inhumanities and barbarisms were committed in my sight as no age can parallel,” De Las Casas wrote. “My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature that now I tremble as I write.”
To conclude, you’re an asshole, obviously don’t listen to minorities when they talk, and should probably never comment on something like this again until you’ve learned to do your research.
Sources: here, here, here, and here.
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