Posted by Dave on 10/12/09 at 05:00:44 pm
Categories: Social Justice Ravings

Happy Genocide Day, or, as popularly known, Columbus Day.

It always amazes me that this country celebrates a man who discovered land that had already been discovered, and then enacted mass extermination of the existing people on the "new" land:

In 1493, when Columbus returned to the Hispaniola, he quickly implemented policies of slavery and mass extermination of the Taino population of the Caribbean. Within three years, five million were dead. Las Casas, the primary historian of the Columbian era, writes of many accounts of the horrors that the Spanish colonists inflicted upon the indigenous population: hanging them en mass, hacking their children into pieces to be used as dog feed, and other horrid cruelties.

And we have a holiday for this man?

Do you think if I "discover" a land that already has been discovered, and commit genocide against those already living there, would I get a holiday named after me?

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