• drewaustin@piefed.ca
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    8 months ago

    So I studied Human Rights in Uni, and one area of study is Columbus’ first contact in the Caribbean. And he was balls to wall evil. In his treatment of the First Nations he encountered. Monks travelling with him wrote about how evil this was and unsuccessfully appealed to the Vatican to condemn this behaviour.

    When people say ‘it way a different time and things were different then” I call it out as bunk.

    • LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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      8 months ago

      Wasn’t he sanctioned on his return to Spain because even his own people at the time were like ‘no dawg, that was despicable’?