It's all over the place, but generally it's just an effort to discredit what Columbus did by pointing out that Leif Ericson was there first. Of course, that doesn't make it less impressive, since it's not as if the Vikings told anybody. Columbus still was making a dangerous voyage that few others would try, and he's the one who actually "dis-covered" (as in, revealed to the Old World) the New World. Ericson may have been there first, but he left it "covered."
Alternatively, some truly wacky people try to claim that neither Ericson nor Columbus matter because the "Indigenous Peoples" discovered it first. Which once again, makes little difference, because those "discoverers" didn't maintain contact with the Old World.
But Indigenous implies that a people were from there. That pesky science shit that they keep hammering us with, saying the world only has “x, days/weeks/months/years left” also proved to date that no person’s were indigenous to the North American continent. Unless they are saying that if those people were “born here” thus making us all “natives/indigenous.” Either way we play it their heads fucking explode.
He didn’t have to cheat by taking the short route and hopping from settled island to island to get to Canada - which we all know isn’t North America, it’s South Arctic.
It's all over the place, but generally it's just an effort to discredit what Columbus did by pointing out that Leif Ericson was there first. Of course, that doesn't make it less impressive, since it's not as if the Vikings told anybody. Columbus still was making a dangerous voyage that few others would try, and he's the one who actually "dis-covered" (as in, revealed to the Old World) the New World. Ericson may have been there first, but he left it "covered."
Alternatively, some truly wacky people try to claim that neither Ericson nor Columbus matter because the "Indigenous Peoples" discovered it first. Which once again, makes little difference, because those "discoverers" didn't maintain contact with the Old World.
He didn't discover it. It was already there. He just showed it to people that knew how to use it. We would still be living in teepees without him.
I just wanna point out the definition of discover:
dis·cov·er
Considering the guy thought he was in India, its safe to say he discovered it.
Thanks! The indigenous angle is what I figured she was playing but wasn’t completely sure. I went red when she got snippy so I left it alone entirely.
I like indigenous peoples who don't lose entire continents.
In America we celebrate winners. Not losers.
My leftist “friends” are losing it on me because I called it Columbus Day Hahahaha. They are comparing Columbus to Hitler. Unbelievable.
But Indigenous implies that a people were from there. That pesky science shit that they keep hammering us with, saying the world only has “x, days/weeks/months/years left” also proved to date that no person’s were indigenous to the North American continent. Unless they are saying that if those people were “born here” thus making us all “natives/indigenous.” Either way we play it their heads fucking explode.
He didn’t have to cheat by taking the short route and hopping from settled island to island to get to Canada - which we all know isn’t North America, it’s South Arctic.