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  • all you butthurt red indians should shit off back to your own country and stop trying to claim you own this great country

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  • Celebrate Columbus Day = Celebrate Genocidism Day

    Genghis khan should genocide all European back in 13th century.

  • @CupcakesCanKill1337 I'm with you on that, but instead of a house, lets make it a continent

  • Columbus is a fucking lie

    Found america BULLSHIT

    The truth he found america but natives had come there like 100 years before him so he kills them

    Good days you celebrate in america.. srs why doesent that day just stop

  • the video failed to mention that its documented that he didnt call them indios because he thought they were in india he called them indo because he felt that these were the people of god..... as the taino had no need or desire to kill rape. pillage steal and lie an like the savages the urinpeein !!!!!

  • A total of maybe more than 150 million Indians (of both Americas) were destroyed in the period of 1500 to 1900, as an average two thirds by smallpox and other epidemics, that leaves some 50 million killed directly by violence, bad treatment and slavery.

    In many countries, such as Brazil, and Guatemala, this continues even today.

  • "When the 16th century ended, some 200,000 Spaniards had moved to the Americas. By that time probably more than 60,000,000 natives were dead." [SH95]

  • Beginning with Columbus (a former slave trader and would-be Holy Crusader) the conquest of the New World began, as usual understood as a means to propagate Christianity.

    Within hours of landfall on the first inhabited island he encountered in the Caribbean, Columbus seized and carried off six native people

  • "In less than the normal lifetime of a single human being, an entire culture of millions of people, thousands of years resident in their homeland, had been exterminated."

  • Hatuey replied that if heaven was where the Christians went, he would rather go to hell."

  • The surviving Indians fell victim to rape, murder, enslavement & spanish raids

    As one of the culprits wrote: "So many Indians died tht they could not be counted, all through the land the Indians lay dead evrywhere. The stench was very great & pestiferous." [SH69]

    The indian chief Hatuey fled wth his people but was captured & burned alive. As "they were tying him to the stake a Franciscan friar urged him to take Jesus to his heart so tht his soul might go to heaven, rather thn descend into hell.

  • On Hispaniola alone, on Columbus visits, the native population (Arawak), a rather harmless and happy people living on an island of abundant natural resources, a literal paradise, soon mourned 50,000 dead. [SH204]

    

  • Celebrate the biggest genocide in this world yeah that sounds just about right!

  • You might as well have a Hitler Day if you have a Colombus day.

  • @Ixpatli

    There is no valid comparison between the colonization and the Holocaust. The colonization of North America was an ongoing process from the time the Indians themselves arrived from Asia. No genocide was committed against them, they were displaced for sure by the advance of technologically favored migrants. It was the last stand of the Stone Age and they lost. Sorry to be so cold, but that's how it was. The Holocaust was a deliberate slaughter, not the result of a lack of immunity.

  • @Ixpatli

    " Pilgrims and Quakers and other british colonizers killed most of the original inhabitants of north america , now ( U.S territory ) (the north-east and south east ) learn your history son."

    The modern European colonization of North America was led by the Spanish and the French. The Virginians came considerably later, the Pilgrims of MA after that, and the Quakers after them. Learn your history.

  • @Ixpatli

    "Pilgrims and Quakers were terrorists who committed genocide against americans."

    Would you stop being ridiculous? Pilgrims and Quakers didn't even come along until 128 years after Columbus, and centuries after Viking contact. God knows who else came and went. The discredited professor , Ivan Van Sertima maintains that the ancient people of South America came from Africa. As such, they would have brought the African diseases (often mischaracterized as European) to the Americas.

  • i will love to celebrate Columbus day make me feel proud to be an american

  • sure leave out all his inhuman actions or anything that would make Columbus look bad.

    Even go as far as to say that he doubled the size of the habitual planet.

    I am sure that the Americas weren't already inhabited at that time.

    Shesh and here I thought I could trust the history channel. What a let down.

  • @1426305384950384

    "sure leave out all his inhuman actions or anything that would make Columbus look bad."

    Everything you know about Columbus you know from the writings of European people. Everything else is made up. The fact that you know these things, means that they weren't left out. Have a nice day.

  • @Americcan ... I never said his action were left out of history or anything in that manner. I was referring to the fact that the video above neglected to mention them.

  • European Perspective . . And only 10,000 miles off course by their Learned computations in navigation . . . they shoulda just asked the Kemites or Asians where they were . .oh then they could not claim it as a "Discovery" ?

  • Fuck you Columbus, indigenous Americans discovered you

  • October 12th, 1492 is a day of conquest by the hands of Europeans

    killing 150 million lives, so called Christians haves blood on their hands

    raping our children & woman, killing our leaders & men

    Stealing gold everywhere they went, are you sure that you know what you are celebrating?

    Destroyed our civilizations & then built colonial cities, laws & borders on OUR CONTINENT

    You are celebrating the biggest HOLOCAUST in the history of humanity

    Read: American Holocaust by David E. Standard

  • @AnahuacNicanTlaca

    "killing 150 million lives"

    LOL! What are you counting? Every Indian ever born?

  • @Americcan

    On historical account, it is estimated to be about 150 million according to scholars. Only 5% survived the "American Holocaust, that was only 800,000 in the beginning of the 20th century.

  • @AnahuacNicanTlaca

    You're reading what you want to read. Actual scholars say that there is no valid estimate of the Indian population at the time of Columbus' arrival. However, it appears that you are taking the most fantastic number conjured, and then assuming that everyone who ever lived died at the hands of your monster. You're a liar. Grow up.

  • @Americcan

    cause he killed every indian living there -_-

  • @Dylanmg420

    Don't be ridiculous

  • @Americcan

    I bet you believe in the Jewish Holocaust ether smh

  • @Americcan

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    You Caucasain hate when we expose your lies, killing, stealing and raping and lying about history. Caucus Mountians= Caucasain 

  • @SUPERIORcarbonL1L2L3 Actually I prefer the truth. I am an Italian-American and I hardly know why any Italian would want to have any association with Columbus and what he represents to this country. That would be like modern day germans celebrating Hitler. Genocide is genocide anyway you want to cut it. I have to laugh when Italians get so bent out of shape over Jersey Shore and say what a horrible representation of Italian Americans and they go an wave the Italian flag at the parade.

  • @LEDANCETHERAPY

    The "genocide" these idiots are talking about was in their own words "European diseases" and what they fail to note is that it was travel and contact which caused epidemics, not conquest. And have you ever wondered how it was that these 15th Century hothouse flowers perished, and yet similarly isolated peoples of the Pacific didn't? It's because it's bullshit. There is archeological evidence of a massive die off in the aboriginals centuries before Columbus arrived.

  • Anything educational from The History Channel, is worthy of more appropriate comments. You are intitled to your opinion; but, allow students to make their own conclusions without having to read your irregular information.

  • Thanks Mr. Columbus for giving us a day off! Your rock!

  • Pathetic History Channel propaganda.  Why have a holiday for a genocidal greedy rapist?

  • @chrisdier

    Damn right and not to mention he WASN'T the first to come to America from Europe. The Vikings were almost 400 years earlier. Why should he even be credited with finding anything when he was thousands of miles off course for his original destination, India.

  • Not cool-y do they have columbus day but not Native Americans day.Cause Native Americans was the first to set foot to america so y we have this B.S

  • he wasnt italian....lol....amaizing

  • If by establishing 'trade', one means setting up the route for the transatlantic slave trade.

    So, it's more like raise a cup of coffee (with sugar) to remember the plantation slaves. (Who knows, maybe your coffee beans were handled by current day child laborers!)

    Oh, and smallpox, don't forget to give a big thanks to the Spanish Empire for their germs...

  • Well for one this is a stupid fucking holiday and this is why first Columbus did not discover America wtf here.There were natives here first and vikings came hear before Columbus. What a insult this holiday is too many people.

  • columbust day is a holiday. He did in a way "discover" america, but it was for europe. He brought the americas to europe bringing about our modern western civilization, if Columbus never found the America's im pretty sure that the native peoples wouldn't have been able to develop ships and sail across the atlantic or pacific and then bring about the cultural diffusion that eventually led to our modern western civilization and our society today would be completely different. go columbus day. :D

  • @jduong1594 there goes a eurocentric view of things mostly everything today is becuase of us indigenous people of cemanahuac wich is today called the americas and white people starting bathing 200 years ago and in 60 b.c two native americans got shipwrecked in holland so how did they get there,and when your ancestors got injured they come see native docters because they had better knowledge of the human body than europeans.and europeans didnt bathe,wear deodorant,brush their teeth etc,etc,etc.

  • @jduong1594 So you're saying that a people with a more advanced calender, and architectural ability, couldn't build ships? Are you aware that there was significant biological exchange between the Polynesians and native Americans that required sea travel? Are you aware that more than 90% of the cultures alive at in 1492 are now extinct? You should research before making such a poor and incorrect statement.

  • @jduong1594 @jduong1594 So you're saying that a people with a more advanced calender, and architectural ability, couldn't build ships? Are you aware that there was significant biological exchange between the Polynesians and native Americans that required sea travel? Are you aware that more than 90% of the cultures alive at in 1492 are now extinct? You should research before making such a poor and incorrect statement.

  • @joegreg07 i'm fully aware that they had developed ships and accomplished great feats and that interractions did occur between polynesians and native americans. Firstly, i'm not going to call your argument poor because people are entitled to their own opinions, so don't take anything personally. Secondly, although the interactions did occur, how much greater was the change that occurred because of Columbus' travel to the Americas. The interactions between Polynesians and Native Americans happene

  • @jduong1594 d, however, how come we didn't see any diffusion on the scale that Columbus brought? I do understand that they had the Mayans and the Aztecs and the Olmecs and such that managed to create many intricate structures and prove their ability to meet the criteria necessary to be an "advanced" civillization. The point i'm simply trying to convey is that Europe's arrival and interactions with the Americas led to our modern civilization. How much of our American culture is Polynesian outside

  • @jduong1594 of Hawaii? Our culture is so heavily influenced by European civilization, so the interactions between Polynesians and Native Americans do not compare to the ones that result in our modern society.

  • @jduong1594 Than why do you say we couldn't build ships? How can you say that our American culture is good when we are killing our mother? Columbus was a bastard and there is no justification for genocide.

  • @jduong1594 My point is that today's society that you seem to celebrate is a sad legacy of the most brutal conquest in human history and the things that you say are positive I can only see as negative. Diffusion is a joke Columbus was a bastard and seeing him as anything else is delusional.

  • Columbus was an idiot, he went to the wrong land. He was suppose to travel to India but somehow landed in the Americas. Where he called the Native Americans Indians. Most of his men died at the cruise, mistreated his men, imposed the Native Americans with his religions and mistreated them too. That's why they now refuse to give a day off for the American Holiday of "Columbus Day".

  • Our 'natives' were conquered by an intelligent, superior power. That scenario has happened hundreds of times during the history of the world. GET OVER IT !!!

  • the natives are better than the suppose to be superior people because they respect beautiful mother earth instead of building a church where people a forced to go.

  • this is so euro-centric it makes me sick, Columbus both enslaved and helped to wipe out an entire people, yet you want us to raise a class to him?

  • @Paul2000

    What an idiotic remark.

  • Entonces dame una version mejor de los acontecimientos... Aun si los Americanos hubieran sido los que hubieran pisado Europa, aun si hubiera sido al reves... ¿Acaso no hubieran acabado las enfermedades con ellos tambien?

    Tambien hubieron muertos europeos por enfermedades americanas, solo que en menor medida porque nosotros contabamos con muchas mas defensas contra las enfermedades. Las mismas con las que hoy contais vosotros precisamente por ese contacto tan nocivo en el pasado.

  • Tambien podrias darme otra en la cual, Cortes no hubiera contado con el apoyo de los pueblos sometidos por los Mexicas para conquistar Tenochtitlan y ejecutar a Moztezuma. Cortes solo con los pocos hombres que le acompañaban no hubiera podido hacerlo, sin embargo las poblaciones aborigenes formaron el grueso de los atacantes contra la ciudad Mexica ¿Por que eso no lo teneis en cuenta? Cortes vencio gracias al odio de las gentes sometidas por los Mexicas.

  • LAs enfermedades europeas hubieran llegado tarde o temprano. ¿De verdad piensas que a estas alturas del siglo XXI no se hubieran encontrado los dos lados del Atlantico? ¿Y te piensas que el resultado hubiera sido mejor?

    Casualmente los Europeos cargabamos con anticuerpos de enfermedades importadas de Africa y Asia, al igual que las propias Europeas, de ahi tanta epidemia... Los americanos no tubieron esa oportunidad y la maturaleza les paso factura de golpe. Era inevitable.

  • ¿Quizas porque la historia la han escrito los europeos, asiaticos y africanos? ¿Quizas porque nuestra sociedad occidental se basa en el legado de la Europa occidental?

    ¿Pretendes conocer la historia de occidente desde el punto de vista de la historia de China? ¿De Mongolia quiza? ¿O nos va a dar una version de la historia universal el legado historico de los mayas o los incas? Seamos coherentes ocn lo que decimos.

  • cristobal colon is the name Spanish Speakers.he was called cristofero colombo in his native Italy so cristofero colon is his actual real name.

  • sorry i mean cristofero colombo not cristofero colon.

  • touche

  • @Zeethr So his parents were born in Italy and his brother was born in Italy and he Cristoforo Colombo was born in Italy what the hell does that make him? SPAINISH???

    NOW HOW IN THE HELL COULD THAT BE? ONLY FOR TWISTED MINDS IT WORKS. TWISTED MINDS BELIEVE ANYTHING THEY CONVINCE THEMSELVES TO BELIEVE.

    Santa Claus was born in Spain too. LOL

  • @Zeethr His REAL name is ITALIAN Cristoforo Colombo. HE WAS BORN IN GENOA ITALY.

    WHAT THE HELL IS COLON? COLOMBO

  • for trying to sound smart and educated you really fail and sound stupid. that is his name in spanish. and please don't comment back, seems like you are a waste of time...

  • nice, it contain a fault tho, the vikings discovered "america" before columbus, thats the proper history, but the rest is ok :)

  • stupied holday

    my people have been living here for decades so it's pretty funny holiday lol..

    it's we maya's or inca's discovering europe or africa and calling it a holiday haha lol

  • It is also the day the church introduced religious genocide to the native American's

  • Since these are Spanish ships, shouldn't their names be pronounced like Spanish words? eg. "Peenta", not "Pihnta"? Or doesn't it matter?

  • What about how he inadvertently initiated the worst genocide in human history? (He also took part himself.)

  • My birthday's Columbus Day. :P

  • @MrSarcasm2 Happy Columbus Birthday to you.

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