Lets be clear Columbus was a white man and we know this because nobody else would be getting 600 years of hype for being in the exact opposite part of the world from where he thought he was instead of being treated as an embarrassment, the standards are never this low for anyone else
It comes off looking like a new tactic by the Conservative Party to rewrite history (again!) to make colonizers “the good guys, really!” While finger-pointing and displacing blame onto literally anyone else…But especially minorities.
well yeah, but in my experience white people love stealing the valor of being indigenous or jewish or romani as long a its just part of their epic family backstory
Even in his own time there were plenty of people going "yeah nice new islands mate, but Christ you are an idiot"
He really pioneered failing upwards.
Columbus, holding up an orange to the king and queen of Spain: I have discovered mangoes! Everyone in Europe: [Starts calling oranges mangoes.]
Pesky pope saying that Catholics couldn't be Freemasons so Italian-Americans made their own fraternal order (with hookers and blackjack) and picked Columbus as their hero, promoted Columbus Day as a patriotic holiday, and adding "Under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance to show those godless commies.
A historian writes bsky.app/profile/caro...
Need to see the data (conspicuously unreleased) to be sure, but this seems to revive an old myth via dodgy genetic claims derived from uncertain remains, proving only that Columbus MAY have had some Spanish/Jewish heritage, which seems perfectly likely in context & says nothing about his identity.
Claim raises idea explorer was from community expelled by his Spanish patrons, but experts view it with caution