Columbus faced repeat rejection in bid to attempt voyage West into uncharted seas.
The voyage considered suicidal by mariners of the time. When approved no one would join his crew, they had to enlist prisoners to find people willing to go.
At great personal risk achieved an impossible feat, discovering new land on the frontier. That's the value introduced by the fictionalized folkhero adopted by America. Take massive risks to try something new, innovate. To the early frontier life of the country Washington Irving fictionalized version of Columbus voyages resonated, resulting in Columbus canonized as folkhero.
Skim textbooks introduced to school kids around 1900 - 1920 and this is the value you see personified by the folkhero.
That's the value they're trying to erase when tearing down Colombus statues by nihilistic hyper focus on the flaws of reality. The communist insurgents won't engage on fictionalized folkhero, just hammer something they can libel and malign over and over again to taint the social fabric.
Columbus faced repeat rejection in bid to attempt voyage West into uncharted seas.
The voyage considered suicidal by mariners of the time. When approved no one would join his crew, they had to enlist prisoners to find people willing to go.
At great personal risk achieved an impossible feat, discovering new land on the frontier. That's the value introduced by the fictionalized folkhero adopted by America. Take massive risks to try something new, innovate. To the early frontier life of the country Washington Irving fictionalized version of Columbus voyages resonated, resulting in Columbus canonized as folkhero.
Skim textbooks introduced to school kids around 1900 - 1920 and this is the value you see personified by the folkhero.
That's the value they're trying to erase when tearing down Colombus statues by nihilistic hyper focus on the flaws of reality. The communist insurgents won't engage on fictionalized folkhero, just hammer something they can libel and malign over and over again to taint the social fabric.
Respond to them with, who cares what he did, still a great feat.