I'd rather just get rid of Columbus Day than changing the name. Either way it's celebrating the destruction of a race of people. Even if you defend that it doesn't, it's still celebrating some bonehead who until his death thought he landed in India.
He was too stupid to realize that he had miscalculated the circumference of the earth. Anyone one who was slightly educated at the time knew that, and realized that if he attempted to sail to India he would die (fortunately for him there was a large continent in the way). It was only when people started to advocate science (and in particular science over religion) that they started making up shit about people in Europe at the time believing the earth was flat (which not any educated person believed).
I'd rather just get rid of Columbus Day than changing the name. Either way it's celebrating the destruction of a race of people. Even if you defend that it doesn't, it's still celebrating some bonehead who until his death thought he landed in India.
He was too stupid to realize that he had miscalculated the circumference of the earth. Anyone one who was slightly educated at the time knew that, and realized that if he attempted to sail to India he would die (fortunately for him there was a large continent in the way). It was only when people started to advocate science (and in particular science over religion) that they started making up shit about people in Europe at the time believing the earth was flat (which not any educated person believed).
I still remember them teaching us in elementary school that Columbus "discovered" that the world was round by observing a butterfly walk on an orange, and comparing it to the sails of a ship returning from the horizon.
Seriously, this was a MAJOR part of the curriculum. And it was complete bullshit.
I'd rather just get rid of Columbus Day than changing the name. Either way it's celebrating the destruction of a race of people. Even if you defend that it doesn't, it's still celebrating some bonehead who until his death thought he landed in India.
He was too stupid to realize that he had miscalculated the circumference of the earth. Anyone one who was slightly educated at the time knew that, and realized that if he attempted to sail to India he would die (fortunately for him there was a large continent in the way). It was only when people started to advocate science (and in particular science over religion) that they started making up shit about people in Europe at the time believing the earth was flat (which not any educated person believed).
I still remember them teaching us in elementary school that Columbus "discovered" that the world was round by observing a butterfly walk on an orange, and comparing it to the sails of a ship returning from the horizon.
Seriously, this was a MAJOR part of the curriculum. And it was complete bullshit.
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Either way, it fits.
Seriously, this was a MAJOR part of the curriculum. And it was complete bullshit.