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Holy fucking shit, imagine being a Columbus apologist 😬 (infosec.pub)
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[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Roman Catholic Church of the time would not have approved of Columbus enslaving Christians so it is weird your RC schools praised him.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

They didn’t praise him exactly, they said he was a bad person who did great things. They just didn’t go into detail about the horrific things he also did.