If you get a chance – try Hans Koning’s 70’s book debunking Columbus – It might win you over even though you’d begin in resistance. – I actually think the truth about Colum – now THERE was a hustler – beats Sam Eliot Morrison mythos.

You cannot “debunk” Columbus. Yes, he was a nasty, greedy SOB who cut a blood red path through the New World…. and so what? That does absolutely nothing to diminish what he achieved. He was a man of his time, and a man like most men of nearly all times.

What Konig and many others do is a very modern thing of looking at the past and applying the sensibilities of the late 20th century Liberal/Left culture upon the actions of men. Oh my goodness, they didn’t respect women! Oh my goodness, look what they said about gays! Oh my goodness, look what they did to the lovely brown people! Yadda yadda yadda. And the lovely brown people weren’t respecting women either, or gays, and would have gladly killed the evil whites in their turn if they were able. (This is the same impulse, incidentally, that turns nearly every Hollywood historical movie into a sad joke.)

Such thinking is simply ignorance writ large, cosmically large, and at bottom is nothing more than massive egotism. “I am so much better than [fill in name of dead white male] because he [fill in behavior now considered offensive].”

It’s the same idiotic impulse that says “Well George Washington was ok, I guess, but HE OWNED SLAVES!”

Do tell Ethel, do tell. Yeah, and I bet one time he hurt someone’s feelings, too.

Of course, it goes without saying (almost) that none of this thinking applies to non-white males, women, gays, or Leftist tyrants. They are above reproach.