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> when there's inarguably much worse historical people out there that are still celebrated

Like who?

If they are as bad or worse than Columbus they should probably not be celebrated

> held to today's ethical and legal standards

What Columbus did was pure evil, no matter how slavery was justified in his own culture

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Columbus was bad enough, but what followed after him was worse.

The Tainos and other island tribes were cursed to have gold jewelry. If they had never had it the Columbian discovery of the Americas may not have been that much bigger a deal than the Viking discovery of the Americas.

It was always going to go the way it did, because of sugarcane. Columbus introduced “white gold” in 1493 on his second voyage even. By 1515-1520 there were sugar plantations in the Caribbean, and the Portuguese had them in Brazil.

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