https://mikesouth.com/op-ed/celebrating-christopher-columbus-day-13-reasons-why-not-to-one-he-was-blamed-for-introducing-syphilis-to-europe-70413/ The institute for the advance study of insensitivity and pornography Tue, 11 Jul 2023 07:16:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://mikesouth.com/op-ed/celebrating-christopher-columbus-day-13-reasons-why-not-to-one-he-was-blamed-for-introducing-syphilis-to-europe-70413/#comment-39977 Mon, 11 Oct 2021 03:34:42 +0000 https://mikesouth.com/?p=70413#comment-39977 Here is an expansion on killing for not converting to Christianity. It doesn’t directly involve Columbus but in modern day Mexico the Spanish killed natives “easy” if they converted and killed them by dumping molten gold down their throats if they did not (gold didn’t have the value it has now at the time). The Spanish killed these people no matter what they did. Thousands died this way. I don’t think Columbus used molten gold to kill like the Spanish but he started a process of annihilation of Native Americans (and First Nations in Canada — of which I am a member as a Cree) that took place over 350 years. I wonder where I would be and what my life would be like if Columbus and Co. wouldn’t have discovered North America (obviously I would be more than just 25% Cree).

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