On this wonderful Columbus Day, please be sure to ignore the historically illiterate, preening dimwits who will spend their time screeching about a fictional version of history where Europeans were the first to introduce rape, pillage, and slavery to the universally peaceful and noble inhabitants of the New World. It would of course be quite impossible for the Spanish to introduce rape, pillage and slavery to many cultures where rape, pillage, and slavery had been utterly commonplace for centuries.
Notice that these self-hating, white-guilt-ridden folks would never suggest that the nightmarish brutality of many Native American tribes outweighs whatever they accomplished. Even the propensity for cannibalism among some tribes must be understood in context, we’re told. Yet, somehow, the sins of some Europeans settlers automatically negate what the European explorers achieved and discovered.
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