FUCK CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS (FUCK HIM)

I don't know what right wing America's sudden fixation is with Christopher Columbus but it's really annoying to me. For some reason, conservatives are painting him as some sort of hero. Someone literally just said to me "You'd be nowhere without Columbus"...? Well, actually, let me quote him accurately. What he actually said was "U r an idiot..u would b nowhere without Christopher Columbus". Now, obviously this guy is a moron, I'm not too worried about him, but there really is this strange hero worship thing going on that I just do not understand.

Mainly, because Christopher Columbus was a massive cunt.

Let's set some things straight.

1. Columbus did not "discover" America. 

First of all, Columbus did not set foot in North America. Never. Did not happen. He explored the central and south American coasts, and only a tiny bit of those, and landed on various Caribbean islands. Leif Erikson discovered North America. 500 years earlier. Columbus has nothing to do with the existence of the United States of America.

2. Columbus was a massive cunt.

Besides being a gold crazed lunatic, that is. He required that all natives in this new world, natives he called pig-nosed savages and whom he said would make excellent slaves, mine gold for him. If they refused to do so, he would remove their ears or their head, depending on his mood. If they accepted they were given quotas to meet. If they then failed to meet said quota he would cut off their hands, tie them together, and hang them around their neck while they bled to death. It's estimated that he did that to some 10,000 natives.

3. Columbus sold little girls as sex slaves.

This doesn't need anything but a quote from Columbus. He wrote this in the year 1500:

“A hundred castellanoes 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.”

4. Columbus sold natives as dog food. Seriously.

Taken straight from this article:

On his second trip to the New World, Columbus brought cannons and attack dogs. If a native resisted slavery, he would cut off a nose or an ear. If slaves tried to escape, Columbus had them burned alive. Other times, he sent attack dogs to hunt them down, and the dogs would tear off the arms and legs of the screaming natives while they were still alive. If the Spaniards ran short of meat to feed the dogs, Arawak babies were killed for dog food.

5. Columbus did not prove that the world was round.

From History.com:

Forget those myths perpetuated by everyone from Washington Irving to Bugs Bunny. There was no need for Columbus to debunk the flat-earthers—the ancient Greeks had already done so. As early as the sixth century B.C., the Greek mathematician Pythagoras surmised the world was round, and two centuries later Aristotle backed him up with astronomical observations. By 1492 most educated people knew the planet was not shaped like a pancake.

There is more, much more, and it's all been covered over and over again.  I asked my kid what he learned about Columbus in school and he said "He discovered America.". This is a problem. The American education system needs to stop lying to our children and we, as Americans, need to stop celebrating genocide.

I cannot believe that people would defend this guy. Seriously. Fuck Christopher Columbus.

Here are some of the sources I used and more articles on Christopher Columbus, the genocidal, money grubbing, psychopath that people still honor with statues and holidays.

http://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-christopher-columbus

https://indiancountrymedianetwork.com/history/events/8-myths-and-atrocities-about-christopher-columbus-and-columbus-day/

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-kasum/columbus-day-a-bad-idea_b_742708.html

http://rapidcityjournal.com/lifestyles/people/top-atrocities-committed-by-christopher-columbus/collection_76ebb2b8-f63d-11e3-a137-001a4bcf887a.html

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/01/real-christopher-columbus/