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Fuck Christopher Columbus
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Anonymous 12w

he was evil by even his own time's standards

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Anonymous 12w

Not my mom telling my grandparents he's evil and my grandparents being like😲

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Anonymous 12w

Morality is a social construct. It’s subjective

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Anonymous 12w

the famous adventurer who brought the modern era to the americas?

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 12w

Wasn’t even the first person to discover the americas lmao

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 12w

never said he was. said he was the reason we all got the green light to go see what it was about. couldn’t let another country go there solo

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 12w

Explain how he “brought the modern era”. And they literally insisted on one country going solo. The Spanish monarchs were concerned that he was going to get funded by someone else and made sure they were his sole source of funding

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 12w

everyone else saw what they were doing and sent their own fleets… like wdym he’s the literal symbol of the start of american colonialism

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 12w

The “literal symbol” is (incorrectly) Jamestown lol

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 12w

sorry, figure* and i also don’t consider the english that special when columbus exists

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