The Tech Lord ⊕ `Lex PendragonI like this meme.
paintgoblin@LexPendragon I like the one that he was such an a****** even the Spanish inquisition hated him and pushed to have his titles stripped
eena meena me@LexPendragon how weird is it that this is said by (a) Colombo himself?
Ashwin DixitColumbo v/s Columbus!!!
ifrauding@LexPendragon
From their definition there were no other humans*.
(*White skinned christians)
Michelle HughesColombo's Day
Faraiwe@LexPendragon in 1735, Mahomet Weyonomon discovered England.
@LexPendragon
Laugh all you want, but a bunch of Anglos still believe that Cristoffa Corombo, aka Columbus, a Italian (Genoese, but who cares) in service of Spaniards (Castilla, but who cares), set foot in Plymouth Rock for the glory of British crown. And they are dead serious about it.
Rachel Rawlings@LexPendragon Anyone upset that Columbus Day as been supplanted by Columbo Day can go Falk themselves.
Roger Crew✅❌☑🗸❎✖✓✔What's particularly appalling is that Spain -- which was a completely new country at the time (formed by Ferdinand & Isabella's marriage earlier in 1492) -- was pretty much the Worst Possible Choice of countries to be doing this (recall CC was turned down by many others before he got to F&I).
F&I were full-ass Religious Fanatics. They had just slaughtered huge numbers in Andalusia, destroying the last Islamic state there.
Also figure there's a reason we remember the Inquisition, which was present in some form all across Catholic Europe as a response to the Reformation, as the **SPANISH** Inquisition (because Spain is the place where they went completely nuts, because they were **allowed** to).
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Not that having France or Britain or Venice do it would have been **that** much better, but Spain was geared for exploitation from the getgo. They had just come off of an expensive military campaign and needed ROI. In some ways it was a really stupid crapshoot that happened to pay off far beyond anyone's expectations. It would have been far better for the world if the expedition had disappeared without a trace and given how badly planned it was, it really should have.
And the religious angle was complete doom for indigenous cultures. There is, e.g., an at least decent chance that far more of the Mayan records (which were systematically BURNED by Spanish authorities, because, you know, pagan) would have survived.
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Really, in a proper history, "Spain", by all rights should have just muddled along for a few decades, eventually bankrupting itself in its drive to piss off the whole rest of Europe with its fanaticism, and maybe splitting back apart into its constituent countries/ethnicities.
Instead they ended up with the resources to bankroll a Counter-Reformation which kept all of Europe at war for much of the next two centuries (... think Northern Ireland, but, like, across the entire continent...)
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