Talk:Christopher Columbus
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While "explorers" might be ok, how about "three day weekends" or "US holidays", or "italian-hispanic riots"? How about "imperialists"? "mass murderers"? "enslavers"... "gold diggers"... ok, I'll stop now... human
00:20, 16 October 2007 (EDT)
The article is slightly wide of the mark by referring to "Icelandic pagans with bad body odour". In fact Leif Erikson was a Christian, he converted during an earlier visit to Norway, although his father Erik the Red was a heathen. PatGallacher (talk) 21:42, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
- I think that might be an odd reference to the fact that some of the Religious Right have issues with accepting America's "discovery" prior to Columbus.
d hominem 23:54, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
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I don't understand is their any evidence that Colombus was directly involved in genocide? As far as I know he was just an explorer, the actual genocide being done by the Spanish empire and his brother Bartholomew (he left his brother in charge while he explored). As far as I can find the worse thing he did was want to convert the natives to Christianity but in comparison to other colonizers that was pretty mild (yes I know that doesn't make it ok), and he was already dead when the genocide of the natives by Spain really kicked off. He personallly was peaceful towards the natives of the Bahamas, though he should not have trusted his brother to be in charge but that seems more because of incompetance on his part than maliciousness. ClothCoat (talk) 00:14, 4 February 2015 (UTC)