Every year at about this time, the #Columbus hashtag on social media asserts things like:
Columbus Day spreads white supremacy …
Columbus Day supports whitewashed history …
Columbus Day validates legal rape, murder, and pillage …
Columbus was a murderer …
Columbus Day means I can take anything I want in a store …
We are going to look at the Columbus myths this week and see if we can find what is true.
I suggest starting with historian Dinesh D’Souza and his explanation of the debate over Columbus, and where it came from, in “The Crimes of Christopher Columbus.”
Multicultural textbooks, committed to a contemporary version of the noble savage portrait, cannot acknowledge historical facts that would embarrass the morality tale of white invaders despoiling the elysian harmony of the Americans.
Continued in
On Spanish Exploration
How Lies Masquerade as Truth
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