<p>On Columbus Day &#8212; &#8220;Indigenous People&#8217;s Day,&#8221; as it is known <a href="https://www.axios.com/columbus-day-indigeounous-peoples-holiday-statues-fd73b812-53c8-4e22-97a6-cde6c956dc35.html">among revisionists</a> &#8212; statues of the great explorer were <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/christopher-columbus-statues-providence-san-francisco-vandalized-columbus-day-n1065951">vandalized</a> in multiple cities. The monuments were doused in red paint and signs were posted accusing Columbus of &#8220;genocide.&#8221;</p>
<p>It is probably useless to critique the historical analysis of people who make their point by spraying red paint on things, but the &#8220;genocide&#8221; accusation against Columbus is ludicrous. Genocide is the targeted extermination of a certain ethnic or religious group. It is true that a very large percentage of Native Americans died in the first few centuries of contact with Europeans, but almost all of that was the result of disease. Columbus certainly didn&#8217;t intentionally spread disease among the native populations &#8212; and couldn&#8217;t, as germ theory wasn&#8217;t fully formulated for another 270 years or so.</p>

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