Originally posted by Omega Vision
No, racist is not a meaningless word, it very well describes your attitude toward other races.
There's a lot of racism on this forum. I have Jewish, Arab, Turkish and French blood in me, as well as English and German in the last four generations. It's difficult for me to be racist. As I am a mongrel.
Most yanks have multiple ethnicity also.
Originally posted by Robtard
So what do you propose be taught: "The Natives were a warring bunch of bow-and-arrow firing, using seashells for money savages who got their dickface asses beat by a bunch of bigger dickfaces." Something like that? *feel free to give your thoughts here, my comment was mostly for humor*Yet it's generally taught that the North was righteous in it's cause to wage war on the South.
We might as well sugarcoat American slavery as: "well, some African tribes enslaved each other, so what's the big deal."
That is the thing though, I'm advocating not sugar coating anything for either side.
As for what I'd like taught..well, you don't even have to paint the picture as "one douche beat another douche". More just when you are teaching about the Indians don't gloss over the negative parts. But like I said I also do not know what they currently teach in schools, thankfully it has been a long time since I've been in one.
Originally posted by Star428
People still dissing Columbus?LOL. Without him, it's quite likely the United States wouldn't even exist today and without the U.S. to oppose them the Nazis would probably be ruling the world today. 👆
You assume no-one else would've found the Americans- possibly another nation would've found it sooner and there'd been more contact sooner and we'd have a nation sooner. He wasn't one of the founders of the country after all, that was a full *three centuries* away- the founding of the US is closer to us than it is to Columbus's time. The Nazis stood no chance of ruling the world anyway- they'd fall sooner or later, their reach way exceeded their grasp, the Russians were grinding them up, we just made sure it was 'sooner.'
Also, without us in WW1, the result may have been different, so there may have been no Nazis.
The butterflies are too great in this scenario- the world would be different without Columbus, but we have no idea how different. History would fundamentally be drastically changed.
-Muslims discovered America before Columbus, claims Turkey’s Erdogan-
In a televised speech in Istanbul, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claimed that Muslims had discovered the Americas three centuries before the voyages of Christopher Columbus. He was addressing a summit of Muslim leaders from Latin America.
"Contacts between Latin America and Islam date back to the 12th century. Muslims discovered America in 1178, not Christopher Columbus," Erdogan said. "Muslim sailors arrived in America from 1178. Columbus mentioned the existence of a mosque on a hill on the Cuban coast." -snip
I'm not suprised, the translation period was the Islamic renaissance.