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mtgoat666
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Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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“...ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” “My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America
will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”
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JZ
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Don't be shy, go ahead and say what you really mean.
Any of us who celebrate Columbus Day and/or don’t want statues torn down or cities to be renamed are white supremacist racists.
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Right, history was never meant to be only about good events.
It is the learning from bad events that makes us a better nation.
Erasing the "bad" events from the books and removing statues of "bad" people, doesn't change the past... it only promotes the bad to happen again.
>>>Learn your history or else you will be condemned to repeat it!
There is a certain banned Nomad who almost weekly pops back using a new handle who often condemns my books, claiming it glorifies an 'evil period' in
Baja's history. Not in the slightest! I only report the details, as best we know them, so these churches and ruins all over Baja have some additional
purpose: to not just entertain but to also educate and increase awareness.
Knowledge is not evil, ignorance is!
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BajaTed
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1st nation native people is the politically correct term
Indigenous people haven't been happy for a quite while.
The "Manifest Destiny" of the continental states will never be apologized for or understood by anyone of eurocentric background.
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Quote: Originally posted by David K  | Right, history was never meant to be only about good events.
It is the learning from bad events that makes us a better nation.
Erasing the "bad" events from the books and removing statues of "bad" people, doesn't change the past... it only promotes the bad to happen again.
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Too often in America we willfully ignore the "bad events" that are the foundation of our country. Indigenous People's Day is a chance commemorate the
suffering that native people experienced in the wake of Christopher Columbus's exploration of North America.
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| Quote: Originally posted by JZ | Don't be shy, go ahead and say what you really mean.
Any of us who celebrate Columbus Day and/or don’t want statues torn down or cities to be renamed are white supremacist racists.
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if the shoe fits.......
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David K
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| Quote: Originally posted by apple | | Quote: Originally posted by David K | Right, history was never meant to be only about good events.
It is the learning from bad events that makes us a better nation.
Erasing the "bad" events from the books and removing statues of "bad" people, doesn't change the past... it only promotes the bad to happen again.
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Too often in America we willfully ignore the "bad events" that are the foundation of our country. Indigenous People's Day is a chance commemorate the
suffering that native people experienced in the wake of Christopher Columbus's exploration of North America. |
You do know that bad things happened to Indians (North American Natives) long before old Chris showed up? If not Columbus, then the next one to come
along. Blaming Columbus for all the ills of a foreign invasion is really small thinking.
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I don't see where I blamed Columbus for "all of the ills of a foreign invasion".
And, I'm sure life was not all sunshine and butterflies in North America prior to European colonization, but it probably wasn't as bad as the genocide
that accompanied colonization.
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mtgoat666
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Can’t you all just enjoy indigenous day without squabbling?
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apple, I wasn't directing the answer at you but at all those who have blamed Columbus for the ills of European conquest.
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| Quote: Originally posted by David K | | apple, I wasn't directing the answer at you but at all those who have blamed Columbus for the ills of European conquest. |
While I posted this thread to honor indigenous peoples,... you have despoiled it by defending Columbus.
On his first voyage in 1492, Columbus landed on an unknown Caribbean island after a three-month journey. On his first day in the New World, he
ordered six of the natives to be seized, writing in his journal that he believed they would be good servants.
Columbus was the first European slave owner in the new world.
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will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”
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Why should a convicted child trafficker receive a statue?
It's not about removal from 'history' or some lame conservative talking point. It's celebrating a child trafficker, and someone who tortured an
entire island's population, inducing suicide until everyone died - and then giving him a statue and an annual parade that I don't understand.
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To the Winner Goes the Spoils ?
But the losers got to Horse around a lot.
Along with (now) Casinos and Heap Big Wampum !
So, it all evens out.
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Comparing social Norms and Mores 1492 and 2020 is a bit much
At that time is was normal to achieve "Conquest" of lands ... with very little concerns for the people losing their land and Culture ... the Moores
were just then "leaving" the Iberian Peninsula .. which they had invaded and taken over
I wasn't involved in any of that .... and being punished for my Fathers Sins isn't Legal nor Moral .. IMO
btw ... my wife is 47% Native American and 49% Iberian Peninsula and I've never had a racist thought about her or her relatives .. or anyone else ...
I usually go by ... Is the individual a JERK or NOT 
[Edited on 10-13-2020 by wessongroup]
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mtgoat666
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| Quote: Originally posted by wessongroup |
btw ... my wife is 47% Native American and 49% Iberian Peninsula and I've never had a racist thought about her or her relatives .. or anyone else ...
I usually go by ... Is the individual a JERK or NOT
[Edited on 10-13-2020 by wessongroup] |
What is the other 4%? Salamander?
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European ...
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| Quote: Originally posted by wessongroup | Comparing social Norms and Mores 1492 and 2020 is a bit much
At that time is was normal to achieve "Conquest" of lands ... with very little concerns for the people losing their land and Culture ... the Moores
were just then "leaving" the Iberian Peninsula .. which they had invaded and taken over
I wasn't involved in any of that .... and being punished for my Fathers Sins isn't Legal nor Moral .. IMO
btw ... my wife is 47% Native American and 49% Iberian Peninsula and I've never had a racist thought about her or her relatives .. or anyone else ...
I usually go by ... Is the individual a JERK or NOT
[Edited on 10-13-2020 by wessongroup] |
The "Moores"? I love it when someone posts something they think is intelligent and highlight their ignorance.
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| Quote: Originally posted by surabi | | Quote: Originally posted by wessongroup | Comparing social Norms and Mores 1492 and 2020 is a bit much
At that time is was normal to achieve "Conquest" of lands ... with very little concerns for the people losing their land and Culture ... the Moores
were just then "leaving" the Iberian Peninsula .. which they had invaded and taken over
I wasn't involved in any of that .... and being punished for my Fathers Sins isn't Legal nor Moral .. IMO
btw ... my wife is 47% Native American and 49% Iberian Peninsula and I've never had a racist thought about her or her relatives .. or anyone else ...
I usually go by ... Is the individual a JERK or NOT
[Edited on 10-13-2020 by wessongroup] |
The "Moores"? I love it when someone posts something they think is intelligent and highlight their ignorance. |
KAPOW!
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Got it ... History is invalid
"The fall of Granada in 1492 marked the end of Muslim rule in Spain, although a Muslim minority persisted until their expulsion in 1609.[10]"
btw there were a lot of folks in that general time period who believed the earth was FLAT .. another reason the comparing the thinking at that time
with current thinking is disingenuous at best
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moors#:~:text=The%20Moors%20we...
Gee, wonder how the Islamic folks took over this "region" .... history indicates by "Conquest" ... Think of Tours France
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tours
Thanks for the opportunity to demonstrate the ignorance and anal-retentive thinking which is so readily shared here
| Quote: Originally posted by del mar | | Quote: Originally posted by surabi | | Quote: Originally posted by wessongroup | Comparing social Norms and Mores 1492 and 2020 is a bit much
At that time is was normal to achieve "Conquest" of lands ... with very little concerns for the people losing their land and Culture ... the Moores
were just then "leaving" the Iberian Peninsula .. which they had invaded and taken over
I wasn't involved in any of that .... and being punished for my Fathers Sins isn't Legal nor Moral .. IMO
btw ... my wife is 47% Native American and 49% Iberian Peninsula and I've never had a racist thought about her or her relatives .. or anyone else ...
I usually go by ... Is the individual a JERK or NOT
[Edited on 10-13-2020 by wessongroup] |
The "Moores"? I love it when someone posts something they think is intelligent and highlight their ignorance. |
KAPOW! |
[Edited on 10-13-2020 by wessongroup]
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| Quote: Originally posted by Ken Cooke | | It's not about removal from 'history' or some lame conservative talking point. It's celebrating a child trafficker, and someone who tortured an
entire island's population, inducing suicide until everyone died - and then giving him a statue and an annual parade that I don't understand.
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spot on ken
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