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Who’s Bashing Columbus
Re-printed from 'The Catholic League' newsletter, sent to me by an American reader of my blog. Should be required reading by all Liberal politicians and Indigenous leaders (italics are mine): _____________________________
October 6, 2023
We
live in a time when some politicians think it is perfectly acceptable to
allow a baby who survives a botched abortion to die unattended by medical
staff. All across the nation, child abuse in the schools is rampant—we
are telling young kids they can switch their sex as quickly as they
can turn on a light switch, offering puberty blockers and chemical
castration to get the job done. Moreover, they can do so behind the backs
of their parents, with the approval of the National Education
Association.
We
have just come off a respiratory illness that killed over one million
Americans and yet we are now legalizing marijuana—while continuing an
“anti-cigarette” campaign in the schools. Students are now coming to
school stoned. We are allowing, even enabling, people from other
countries to crash our borders, bringing untold amounts of fentanyl with
them.
Our
cities are run by politicians who rescue cats and dogs from extremely
cold weather while allowing mentally-ill human beings to freeze to
death on the sidewalks, all in the name of civil liberties. Crime is out
of control and there is no accountability for even violent crimes. The
homeless defecate in the streets, harass passersby, and demand that their
“rights” be protected.
And
these same politicians have the
audacity to pretend that they come to the table with their hands clean,
insisting we either erase Columbus from history or demonize him, all the
while romanticizing so-called Indigenous peoples. It’s enough to make any
sane American (or Canadian) who knows anything about history reach for the vomit bag.
Native
Americans did not originate in America: they migrated here from Asia. (How long have I been saying this!? In fact, I am going to coin my own phrase for the Indigenous. I'm going to call them Earlier Settlers from now on.) The
idea that they lived in some kind of Garden of Eden—living
peacefully—until the white boys showed up is pure poppycock. The fact is
there is nothing noble about the “noble savage.” Indeed, he is more
savage than noble.
Harvard
professor Steven Pinker, who is not a victim of political correctness,
describes what life was like throughout most of history.
“Cruelty
as entertainment, human sacrifice to indulge superstition, slavery as a
labor-saving device, conquest as the mission statement of government,
genocide as a means of acquiring real estate, torture and mutilation as
routine punishment, the death penalty for misdemeanors and differences of
opinion, assassination as the mechanism of political succession, rape as
the spoils of war, pogroms as outlets for frustration, homicide as the
major form of conflict resolution—all were unexceptionable features of
life for most of human history.”
What
about Indigenous peoples? Pinker concludes that they “were far more
violent than our own.” He cites the work of noted anthropologists who
learned of “population-wide rates of death in tribal warfare that dwarf
those of modern times.” Harvard historian Bernard Bailyn agreed, saying, they did not live in a “terribly peaceful world.” In
fact, “They were always involved in warfare.”
None
of this is to excuse any wrongdoing by Europeans—many of them were just
as vicious. But it is to say that we need to get over our childlike image
of Native Americans and stop with the Columbus bashing. It makes no sense
morally or historically, and this is doubly so for those who come to the
table today with filthy hands.
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