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.
To be continued …
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