Columbus Day Protests

[Seamus Fermanagh]

A minor distinction. He told them where to go, what was there, and what to do with it.

Even if we assume that these were cultural norms of the time, they're still bigoted norms that resulted in the actual violent elimination of entire peoples. Some of whom are still around, living in poverty on shitty reservations because of broken treaties and the legacy of Columbus' discovery. The only reasons to defend it are petty as all hell. Sure, most of the major tribes have taken payoffs recently enough, but some of them have never taken a dime and are still penalized for it.

Like this one.

I'd like the reservation system to end -- it always has been an inherently abusive process even when not corruptly administered -- and to have native Americans simply be American citizens.


You are aware of the difficulties in applying modern notions of equality, ethics, and morality to that time period, yes? I am hardly an apologist for what happened, but neither am I willing to try to somehow revert ownership back to the first peoples.