It's a holiday celebrating Christopher Columbus. But many on the left consider him as some sort of villain on the theory that everything bad that happened to the native Americans would never have occurred had Columbus known his place and stayed home.
But what if he had stayed home? Some other European would have eventually made the trip, and the native Americans would have been defeated anyway. Those who are decrying Columbus should consider that any little change in history that long ago would have considerable consequences centuries later. Those who wish he had not come are ignoring the fact that their own ancestral history would be changed as well. That person they see in the mirror may not exist.
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1:24 PM 10/8/2018
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