Today is the day we celebrate Christophe Colomb. Lost in all the controversy is the superhuman feat he accomplished. He wasn't just taking on an ocean but centuries of thinking the world was flat.* Neil Degrasse Tyson - a really smart dude - discusses his achievement and how finding America was one of the most important events to ever happen to the human race.
He also discusses what an s.o.b. Columbus was. No surprise. It took an s.o.b. to pull off what he did.
Although celebrated by the Italians, not every Italian is so enamored with Christophe.
What would Columbus Day be without a cartoon?
11 comments:
Believing that Neil Degrasse Tyson is “a really smart dude” is peak midwit.
Damn it 3:40!
It’s nitwit not midwit!!!
Vikings found it before Columbus. The Queen of Spain was intrigued by new of a “New World” so word of the continent we now know of as North America was spoken of for many years. I’m just glad Columbus made it. If you actually studied the size of his Galleons you would have never attempted the crossing. They were actually small.
Christopher Columbus was the first New World Democrat. He left not knowing where he was going, he arrived not knowing where he was, he went home not knowing where he'd been and he did it all on a government grant.
Good Columbus cartoon
https://twitter.com/drmistercody/status/1315724838363787264?lang=en
Tell us something we don't already know, Sid...I mean 8:44.
Columbus didn’t “discover” the new world. There were people here.
However that voyage did change the world. It’s a massive event in history. And it’s now downplayed thanks to the “Columbus discovered America” narrative..
What's amazing to me is that people think the last few thousand years is the only history of the planet.
@7:22
Agreed, fellow traveler!
I also have a copy of the book Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings
-fan of Graham Hancock
What did Columbus ever do to the people that they hate him so much? Or is that just something to use as an excuse to yell racist?
@10:39 AM
Your Mississippi Public School education is showing. Columbus enslaved the indigenous peoples of the Americas and then converted them to Catholicism at the point of a spear. Thereby destroying their culture and freedom. Not exactly things worth of celebrating in the “so called” Self-described, “Land of the Free”
Of course, the indigenous people made poor slaves. So they were eventually replaced by imported West Africans in the tobacco and sugar cane fields of New Spain. Thus leading to the Afro-Caribbean cultures that we know today. One thing we don’t discuss is that the slavers were predominantly Spanish conversos.
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