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Angry Cephalopod
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There’s been a long running folk history theory that he was a crypto-Jew because 1492 was the year Spain expelled the Jews and because Cristóbal is a little *too* Christian a name, I guess?
I was just going to mention this. It was more popular when Columbus was thought of as a brave explorer than a colonizing oppressor. Also, let’s not forget that “secretly Jewish” is part of many Latinos family lore.
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Angry Cephalopod
@jephalopod.bsky.social
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