the tide of anti-Western radicalism<\/a> egged on by PC Multi-Cultural education, I take a moment to celebrate Christopher Columbus. \u00a0Does that mean I celebrate everything the man did? \u00a0No. \u00a0Just like I don\u2019t celebrate what every soldier ever did when I celebrate, or remember, Veterans Day. \u00a0Or that I don\u2019t celebrate everything America did when I celebrate Independence Day. \u00a0Or \u00a0I don\u2019t celebrate everything done by Native Americans when I celebrate my American Indian heritage. \u00a0Or I don\u2019t celebrate everything done by the Catholic Church when I celebrate the Church. \u00a0OR I don\u2019t affirm and celebrate the sins of Martin Luther King, Jr. (if he had any) when I celebrate him.<\/p>\nSee how easy it is. \u00a0What Christopher Columbus is damned for is the color of his skin, when you get right down to it. \u00a0We know that Native Americans enslaved each other. \u00a0So did Africans. \u00a0Most thinking, educated people know that Muslims had a robust slave trade based on arguments not too dissimilar to the \u2018Africans are animals\u2019 arguments we hear from Europeans. \u00a0We know Native Americans fought brutal wars of conquest, genocidal extermination, and could out-Machiavelli the best European princes. <\/p>\n
Did Columbus personally kill people? \u00a0Did he personally enslaved Natives? \u00a0Yep. \u00a0It wasn\u2019t uncommon in those rough and tumble days (unlike our sophisticated and morally superior age we live in). \u00a0Of course that doesn\u2019t make it right (see Native American atrocities above). \u00a0But the true \u2018hate\u2019 of Columbus that people embrace and advocate is for no other reason than the color of his skin. \u00a0He was a white European. \u00a0Over the centuries, the Native population would be displaced and even killed by others who were white Europeans. \u00a0Therefore, guilty \u2013 him and his entire being. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s racism, of course. \u00a0Just like those who defend illegal immigration. \u00a0When a case is brought up of Americans being attacked, or even murdered, how often have I seen the response \u2018Oh yeah! \u00a0Well look what your ancestors did!\u2019 \u00a0Again, racism through and through. \u00a0The same racism that heaps the sins of an entire civilization over subsequent centuries on the shoulders of a single explorer. <\/p>\n
So while I lament the actions taken by Columbus personally, and wish he had been a better person, I still celebrate him. \u00a0Because I still celebrate aspects of the dying West, and therefore celebrate the events that unfolded to bring a Christian founded society to one that was in no way saintly or even close to Christian in its moral standards, I don\u2019t need a scapegoat to apologize for the valueless West. For all the flaws of the West, they were flaws because of deviations from its moral grounding. \u00a0The flaws of the Native population, like so many other civilizations, were flaws grounded on the adherence to its moral groundings.<\/p>\n
And since I don\u2019t want to be a racist, even if it\u2019s the hip and awesome racism of post-modern hipsters who can\u2019t help but be awesome because awesome, I\u2019m not going to condemn a man because over the centuries others who looked like him and shared his skin color did other wrong, even heinous, things.<\/p>\n
So here\u2019s to you Christopher! \u00a0It won\u2019t be long before the juggernaut of endless censorship<\/a> reaches you, as it will no doubt reach others<\/a>. \u00a0But while it lasts, while freedoms and liberties are still around, I\u2019ll part way from my moral superiors, and remember the boldness and courage it took for you to do something amazing, especially from the vantage point of an era where so many moral crusaders at best risk the terrors of Carpal Tunnel syndrome, and little more.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yes, in fighting the tide of anti-Western radicalism egged on by PC Multi-Cultural education, I take a moment to celebrate Christopher Columbus. \u00a0Does that mean I celebrate everything the man did? \u00a0No. \u00a0Just like I don\u2019t celebrate what every soldier ever did when I celebrate, or remember, Veterans Day. \u00a0Or that I don\u2019t celebrate everything […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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