Christopher Columbus was awful... The Oatmeal (aka Matthew Inman) is not happy that we're celebrating Columbus Day, and he makes some very good points.
When I first started reading history (some 40 years ago), discovering that Columbus was downright evil was one of the things that started me doubting the propaganda I'd been fed in school under the guise of “history”. It turns out that precious little of that pap contained anything remotely resembling objective truth – and the stories we were fed about Columbus are as fine an example as you ask for...
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