Lack of historical understanding is pretty infuriating. People are screeching to both keep and remove the name without knowing why. I vote to change the name to something else, not because I give half a fuck about natives but because Columbus was a literal genocidal retard.
Columbus didn't prove the world was round, the classical Greeks knew that, and institutions of scholars knew the size of the world to a fairly accurate degree. The reason they called Columbus a big retard is because he pulled a number out of his ass that was approximately half the understood size of the earth, and naturally, everyone said "lmao nigga there's literally just thousands of miles of ocean, you will die." Columbus got lucky and found two unknown continents.
When he did make it to Caribbean, he enslaved a shit ton of natives that had initially been welcoming, and simply told them to bring him gold, with no further input. Well, naturally, since we talk about the California and Alaska gold fields, and not the Cuban and Haitian gold fields, Columbus, who still thought he was in India, was disappointed when there was virtually no fucking gold on the island, and knew those goddamn filthy Indians were hoarding their massive mounds of gold, so he started mass executions in some of the most fucked up manners possible, including chopping off the hands of all the members of a village and forbidding anyone to help feed them. Naturally they died from infection or starvation.
Some people with no historical context might defend him by saying "Well, let's judge him against his contemporaries! After all, Tommy J and Georgy Dub owned slaves and were based and tradpilled!" No, lmao. Even Columbus' most senior men thought he was a literally insane maniac and their fear that one day he would chop their hands off and leave them to die in the jungle is well documented in their journals. That's the other thing, this nigga was stringing up anyone that happened to find valuables and didn't immediately turn them over to him. Even his own men weren't immune to his batshit insane murder sprees.
In conclusion, Columbus was a literally insane retard that got lucky, and died before he discovered he found the Americas and not a new route to India.
Edit: I should give numbers for scale. This wasn't him occasionally wiping out a town. This dude was responsible for the deaths of likely over 100,000 natives, out of a population not even double that. Estimates say that between outright murder, starvation, torture, or natives simply killing themselves and their own children to escape being tortured to death for gold they didn't have, something like 60% of the population of Cuba and Hispania died between 1492-1508.
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