First of all I applaud you for using the same format I used for my write-up, whether or not you did this consciously!

The best trolling is always true and verifiable ;)

The fact is that the plight of the Native Americans took a huge nosedive after 1492 but in 2015 Native Americans are doing unimaginably better than they were in 1491. You simply cannot deny this, no matter how hard you may try to shame and mock me.

It marks the beginning of European influence in the Americas, without which America would not exist. That more than justifies its existence as a Federal Holiday in the USA. The examples you gave have little relevance to American history.

A road, seriously? There’s a freakin’ country named after Columbus!

Why would this be the case? Why wouldn’t wheels or horses have made it over to the Americas by somebody other than Columbus, at some point in the next 500 years? Or 100 years? Or 3 years?

There is only one proper response to this: colonization was terrible for the colonized, but that doesn’t mean we should pretend that the colonized were saints and excuse their own crimes.

Read more carefully.

However, until Columbus “sailed the ocean blue” these “discoveries” had almost no impact on world history whatsoever. Most Native Americans had no orally transmitted records of the Old World whence they came (except for some possible mythological accounts), and nobody even believed Leif Ericson until the 1960s. The…

You can read my response to HoustonDude2014 to see how this type of argument is severely flawed — it has nothing to do with “a special kind of cultural ignorance” or anything like that.

I wrote something about that, didn’t I. . .

I think that counterfactuals are not only difficult to ponder but are actually ontologically meaningless. In other words, pondering “what might have happened” is meaningless. For that reason I dismiss any arguments of the type “well if [insert famous person here] wasn’t alive then somebody else would have discovered…

More like “writing it myself” and then “sharing” ;)

The famously progressive city of Berkeley California “celebrated” the 500th anniversary of Columbus’ discovery of the New World by changing Columbus Day to Indigenous People’s Day. That was back in 1992. Today America itself is undergoing an ideological transformation that will soon turn it into a country-sized…

Such a first world problem it beggars belief . . .

The famously progressive city of Berkeley California “celebrated” the 500th anniversary of Columbus’ discovery of the New World by changing Columbus Day to Indigenous People’s Day. That was back in 1992. Today America itself is undergoing an ideological transformation that will soon turn it into a country-sized…