@@donnajocatlady3839 Or the Socialist Democrats' "B****** child." Man, if only the Dems were still JFK's party. Who knows how well America would be united if that were so.
India was the name for Asia and then it was called Western Indies. The idea of continental masses wasn't a thing back then and thats why they understood America as "the new world" as opposed to the "old world". They would basically say there are only two continents: America (the new world) and Africaeuroaustralasia continent.
Another word or term for it is the Noble Savage Myth, the false notion that all indigenous people were always peaceful and passive. Most native cultures fought wars with other native cultures. Why do you think they had weapons, spears, and shields? There has never been a Utopian culture.
For all of its historical inaccuracies, that's one of my favorite parts of Disney's Pocahontas. How are we introduced to the natives? They're coming back FROM WAR. Violence is a HUMAN thing, not a WHITE thing. lol
Don't even start on how women were treated. They were basically slaves for their husbands in most societies, and the only way to leave him was to find some other guy who was stronger and move in with him.
James Matise Maybe for the east coast tribes, but the Cheyenne had absurdly liberated women. If a woman had not yet born her husband any children, she could dump him whenever she pleased! He could do nothing to protest. Actually, many such abandoned men became suicidally self destructive as a result.
Parkman, France and England in North America. Read it. A classic. Free on Internet. He knew and lived with Indians. Slavery, torture, cannibalism. But, certainly, they have changed. The Spanish, Jesuits and the French were no altar boys. _Thank God_ the English won!
Furball2k even the beginning of the 90s I remember my teachers in Mexico sin I grew up there because my mom was Mexican they didn’t teach me about him being a bad person at least I don’t remember any bad teachings about Columbus:
Furball2k I'm right there with you. Born in" 71" I went to Catholic School untill high school and my junior year English literature teacher was my first ( in the fall of 87) experience with a fully indoctrinated, feminist, self hated , white guilt filled liberal nut job and I thought she should not be teaching kids!!!
Eric Clapton as part of the British invasion? Oh no! Strip him of any grammies and rock and roll nominations or inductions he must have. I knew it! Racism from the English! I knew it!
As a student studying forest ecology, Native Americans did NOT live in harmony with nature, but rather in harmony with their anthropogenic environment. For example: early explorers described savannas and prairies in what would become South Carolina. These environments were products of fires intentional set by Natives. Today these areas have returned to forest, due to early 20th century fire suppression.
tcbarnes290 so you’re equating a comparatively small region of deforestation to what the settlers did.....I would think that a person studying forest ecology would have access to the before and after maps of forests in the USA. Either your school is terrible or you’re being disingenuous. No one argues that Natives didn’t use the land and resources.
Mystdragon He was talking about the early explorers that came to what is now the US. They landed in what is now South Carolina. Those same deforestation techniques were used all over the US. The Mound builders and their ancestors did the same all through the interior. Those first settlers couldn't comment on the whole of the US, only the part they were familiar with. It took centuries to discover and map the continent. Those settlers had no idea of the existence of tribes like the Comanche, Sioux and Blackfoot.
@@mystdragon8530 : "So what you're saying is...." (I love when people answer a question that wasn't asked simply because they wish it were.) If you can't argue, go back to your Bill Nye coloring book, SweetPea. That slag from Channel 4 already tried the whole "So you're saying", "So you're equating", "So you're_______" with Jordan Peterson. It didn't work. Now shut up and go see if Al Gore has any beer cans to recycle.
William F. Buckley Jr or is it Mazie Hirono, since you like to tell people you disagree with to “shut up”, go put on your mask and protest some free speech event since you obviously don’t respect the 1st amendment.
Meanwhile in real news: Unemployment hits a 49 year low of 3.7% as the economy adds 134,000 jobs in September alone. This is the strongest economy in American history.
@@namelessking8905 Is it really the case ? The US economy didn't get better under Obama ? I'm a foreigner (who disliked Obama and like Trump, mainly for what he represents), and I keep hearing leftists tell me that Trump's economics suck and the just inherited Obama's...
I’d like to read the sources for these because I’m interested in the topic. Is there any chance PragerU could start leaving links to their sources in the description? I think this would be useful to the people watching the videos, and I think it would add to their credibility.
you know that columbus was arrest in spain for excessive cruelty to the natives he made them bring lots of gold in a short time or their hands were chopped off, the tale of colombus was written way after his life and it was mostl a lie that is taught in school, which historians disagree on the schools, and where did you get the source that the natives were cannibals?
@@MrFixIt-le7tl common knowledge isn't always correct just because it's common knowledge. And linking your sources has nothing to do with social justice Warriors. It's all about adding credibility to what you're saying and actually being able to back up what you're saying with actual facts. You also need to see where that information is coming from. If you don't store see any of your information especially things like this then you could just be lying or making stuff up. Or taking stuff that from a website that was made up. Credibility and reputable information is nuanced. Facts don't have a political leaning. Just because the truth and the facts don't agree with what you got doesn't mean they're incorrect either.
Leif Eriksson? And his great discovery survives by the hundreds of millions of people who speak Norwegian in the world and the universal heritage of humanity that the Vikings left in America
Well, Steven Crowder isn't an expert, which is why he calls the experts for a summary on his show. PragerU does the same because they're responsible, and they want people who know their topic well.
@@benjaminmunk yeah really that's what I'm saying. his arguments and videos are pretty childish imho.. he would be great for already conservative people to watch, but for people to change their mind, he would be really childish
A few weeks ago in history class, we were talking about early American settlement, and I swear, my history teacher is trying to brainwash us. She played videos in class that essentially told us that Columbus was an angry murderer and that the natives were peaceful folk. We had to argue a point in class about whether or not Columbus Day should still be celebrated, and I was literally the only person in the entire class who said that Columbus Day should still be celebrated. And when I chose to state said opinion, my teacher just rolled her eyes at me. I had to justify said opinion in front of the entire goddamn class, and I've been getting looked down upon by all of my peers ever since, simply because I didn't follow the opinions of the rest of the mob. This is why I hate the public school system.
"lisa"...keep the courage. But also remember that teachers have a lot of power to destroy you so sometimes you need to remain silent to survive. It's a tough choice.
It’s just the same at my private school. These people are so liberal it’s crazy. During Spanish today, there was the one girl who saw an issue on a worksheet. It said something Along the lines of “ask you partner... and record his/her response”. She corrected it to his/her/their after saying it’s 2018 for god’s sake. I feel you
We should have a holiday that talks about this and uses it as an illustrative story as to why people should not go exploring underprepared. Their failure was historically very significant. The Americas would be very different had they successfully colonized.
@@w0ndawar So? social or economic status should never determine who can vote or not. In a true democracy every adult citizens should have the right to vote.
@@redblaze8700 Fine with me. Every Adult citizen who has not committed murder or rape should have the right to vote. I don't have a problem with poor people voting, I was only arguing that America is not a "True Democracy."
NorskVikingen His discovery was useless because he left after a year and forgot about it. Columbus’ discovery lead to uniting of east and west. Not the same thing
Doesn't change the fact that he got there first. And at least he reached the mainland, unlike Columbus. And unlike Columbus, Leif Eriksson tried to establish a permanent settlement. They were both brave explorers who reached a far and strange land. They had different goals, and ended up with different outcomes; but regardless of how one feels about them as men, they should both be recognized for their achievements.
Here's my problem. Christopher Columbus just wasn't a very good person, and the history shows this. Not by our standards, and not by the standards of his own time. He had strict instructions from Queen Isabella of Spain to treat the natives with kindness, so they could be converted. From Columbus' own writing, he stated, upon seeing the primitive weapons of the Arawaks, "I could conquer the whole of them with 50 men, and govern them as I pleased." He also said of them, "They ought to make good and skilled servants... I think they can very easily be made Christians, for they seem to have no religion." He cheated his own men out of a lifetime pension, angered Queen Isabella with his brutality and was jailed for it, and gave native women that he had captured to his men, to be raped. This is not someone to be admired. He was so invested in the slave trade, that he went against the orders of the Spanish monarchy, and prevented the baptizing of natives so they could remain slaves. He was arrested for his gross mismanagement of Cuba, and his term as governor ended in humiliation and disgrace. None of this condemns European exploration or settlement of the Americas. None of this makes the United States, a nation founded three centuries after Columbus' voyages, complicit. But it does make Christopher Columbus a man that no one should admire. He stumbled into greatness, because he managed to miscalculate the size of the earth, and when he saw the opportunity, he used it to make himself rich off of human suffering.
Yup, thank you for that, he was a bad dude, I think Crowder was pointing out convient inaccuracies. I love Crowder but for real, Columbus was a peice of shit.
I don't know what and was not true, but I have heard that a lot of the bad things about him were written by a guy who in life was a big enemy of him, and may not be true.
Well done Steven. My 9 year old was given a bunch of anti-Columbus material and told to do a report. So we threw all that material away and basically helped him give this same presentation. The teacher seemed pretty peeved, but couldn't refute anything. It was glorious.
Thank god we have some good parents left these days. I feel bad for your son, he's going to be in for a rough ride with all the feminist indoctrination in academia these days.
I don't even understand what this comment is supposed to be. My kid had all this homework that said Columbus was a slave driving murderer. But truth has a liberal bias so we threw that away and replaced it with a Prager "not actually a university" University video.
@@henryworks9089 I believe he made trips to South America, if memory serves me correctly. Sadly, he never landed on North America, and visited Columbus, Ohio.... ;-)
@@Spoontamer4 I know, my point is that eriksson is the first European to discover the northern region. Of course they never made any settlements that lasted long though😅
It’s truly impressive how uneducated or indoctrinated most people are. Fact 1- Columbus defeated Godzilla’s cousin in an epic sea battle half way across the Atlantic. Fact 2- The 4th ship, the “Taco Bell” was taken over by the crew in a mutiny and was said to have set out in search of Atlantis. Fact 3- When they reached Merica Columbus used his wizard magic to summon a great feast and invited the neighborhood to the party. Fact 4- Native Americans were so impressed with the mashed potatoes they declared all of what we know now as the continental U.S. to be Merica. Fact 5- Turns out Chris forgot to wash his hands when magicking up the feast and 90% of the natives died from aids.
Fact 6: After Columbus, while using Excalibur, defeated Alduin defending the Fountain of Youth, he was unable to drink it since the wounds from his battle resulted in death.
Fact 7: After landing in the Carribean, Columbus created the very first "Hurricane Harbor" for the indians to enjoy as a vacation resort: this is where season passes were first invented.
This is exactly what I have been saying! I'm thankful for the world we live in today, and owe Columbus some respect for that. Nonetheless, I do have respect for the indigenous way of life that was sacrificed for the greater good.
@@Slanghomy why do u owe colombus anything? he didnt do shit for naught but himself, without him we'd still have 1000's of native american civilizations and history to look back on but now we don't singlehandedly because of him.
Crowder failed to the mention the fact that Columbus enslaved many of the friendly native Americans and used brutal punishment to motivate forced labor. He also failed to mention that most of the victims of wounded knee were women and children. That's what's called a massacre. He didn't mention the hundreds of treaties the U.S. broke with the natives. He didn't mention the forced removal of Indians which lead to the trail of tears which killed many thousands of people. He didn't mention the long list of massacres were many women and children died. Also the Indians didn't hunt the buffalo to near Extinction. There is plenty of evidence that the American government had a policy of killing buffalo in mass to cut off the plains Indians main source of food and fabric material. This is one of the most ridicules videos I have ever seen.
Columbus/Spanish with help of the Catholic Church enslaved many of the friendly and non friendly Native Americans. The United States is responsible for it's small part of the Americas these past two hundred, thirty plus years. The country of Mexico still battles this very day Native Maya tribes in the Yucatan. Also while Wounded Knee was a massacre with the murder of women and children. Again after another "ghost dance" the Lakota were trying to leave their reservation and were told might happen days before they decided to leave. The Lakota were told and knew leaving the reservation would be an act of war. Besides Lakota were guarded by the US 7th Cavalry regiment, the same regiment (US Army designated name only) massacred during the Battle of the Little Bighorn. While Steven Crowder did not mention the treaties broken by the U.S. with the Native Americans, He also did not mention those treaties broken by the Spanish, French, Dutch, British or the treaties broken by the Native Americans themselves. While it was comical showing the Native Americans hunting to extinction the buffalo. The Native Americans did hunt several different North American species like the horse, camel, American Lion and other tribes of Native American peoples. When Georgia became the forth state in the United States, members of the Cherokee and Creek tribes owned more slaves than the whites in the coastal lowlands of the state. Methodism was one of the largest Christian denominations in the south among Native American tribes. When the United Methodist Association outlawed slavery from their ranks of members, there was a mass exodus of converted Native Americans from the Methodist Church.
omg, how dare you! ford pinto's killed countless native Americans who used demo-ratic free loans in the 70's, trying to wipe out an entire tribe... you just melted snowflakes!
I totally agree with this whole video, but the guy was actually a pretty terrible navigator, he was looking for a new trade route to India and literally ended up on the opposite side of the earth.
Well remember that nobody knew this new land existed so Columbus just figured that if the earth were round he could just sail west until he reached India, and you can reach India if you sail west from Europe, its just that there's a giant continent in the way.
1492 and you see dark people, not knowing America existed. I don’t see how he can be considered bad. That’s like saying Thomas Edison was awful at creating lightbulbs.
So bad that he could cross six times the Atlantic Ocean in a boat that you woudn't trust to go fishing one mile offshore, arriving either to Spain or the Hispaniola with not even a wristwatch, not to mention a sextant, a chart or the astronomic tables. Things needed before you were able to switch on your GPS. He had the knowledge, the will and the balls that you will never get in a thousand years life.
He may have discovered America, but he didn't do anything about it. He didn't tell anyone (in a way that ended up mattering) and Europe did not colonize the Americas because of him. If I found out some Viking discovered electricity in 1207 and told nobody and did nothing with it, I wouldn't give them much recognition either.
Cesar Murillo You definitely can't deny the dramatic changes that happened cause of Columbus's arrival in the Americas that were both positive and negative, but I think that going forward, it makes more sense to make the day about indigenous peoples instead of Columbus. Indigenous communities have a longer history in the present-day United States than any other community, and they've have made contributions to American society that are often overlooked (like the Navajo code-talkers whose unbreakable Navajo-language code system was vital to America's victory over the Japanese in World War II), so it makes sense that there'd be a day that encourages Americans to learn more about indigenous history and cultures.
Do you people understand that those “liberal professors” you keep raging about also repudiate the myth of the angelic natives too right? Nobody who has even a shred of credibility in the study of native Americans cultures perpetuate this myth. Native Americans were too diverse to paint them as anything, based on just distance between them. Some natives never saw a white person until way after the US was established. You people need to stop arguing about mythical “liberal professors” and actually go to collee
Krista Zurawski I really want to know where this liberal education you speak of is taught. Cuz I went to school in liberal kale yoga New York City and all I ever learned about Columbus was how he was a brilliant navigator who never did anything wrong.
What about the fact that today ISN'T Columbus day. It's on Friday. Columbus "discovered America" on October 12th, 1492... not on the 8th. On the 8th, his crew was on the verge of committing mutiny.
I am sure you're just joking about the date thing, but federal holidays tend to be on Mondays for convenience. Memorial, Labor, Columbus, Martin Luther King, Jr., etc.
Thank you. I have never liked how the Monday holiday bill messed things up. If a holiday is worth celebrating it is worth celebrating on the right day.
yeah just move the Columbus day to the correct day and the whole thing becomes like Halloween and all saints day 2 holidays one celebrated and one not.
I was going to say Ormurin Langi (Long Serpent), until I realized it was a 120 ft Viking ship owned by King Olaf. He used it to defeat a Sorcer King called Raud the Strong, after he refused to convert to Jesus.
To quote the great Michael Knowles, “You are standing on the shoulders of giants and you think you are flying, but you are not. And you spit down on that great man with your ingratitude”
I think Eric the Red or Leif (sp?) Erickson were the first European to discover the Americas. Discover is the correct term from the perspective of the Europeans. All this video does is present a more nuisance picture of what happened in history.
If the holiday was supposed to celebrate western exploration keep in mind that he wouldn’t have sailed if not for Ottoman blockades on Europe. Columbus was brutal by historical standards, not for some religious reason; He set the standard for the black legend of systematic torture by Spain. America has a lot of heroes, but it’s weird that Columbus needs to be one of them.
Ok Prager, only one thing: while Columbus WAS the first to bring knowledge of the America’s existence back to Western Europe, he was not the first to set foot on America. The Vikings did that.
That might not be true either. I heard there were other travelers to America amongst the Muslims and Jews of Spain before Ferdinand and Isabella took Muslim Spain in 1492. Columbus was said to have used Muslim and Jewish sailors from Spain as well as using maps from them roughly outlining regions in America, although I think he still believed that it was India for some reason. This is further corroborated by the fact that some Native Americans had Muslim names, suggesting there were some converts in early America before 1492. Spain was conquered by Ferdinand, Isabella and the Spanish Conquistadors in 1492 from the Muslims and then 6 months later Columbus set sail for America.
@@cyclonemt but still Vikings were earlier in America even if we count your theory about Jewish and Arabian sailors. Firstly I dont believe your "story" as both Jews and Arabs didnt develop transoceanic ships during that period. Most of the Arab fleet consisted of small merchant and medium seized ships with very decent maneuverability in the shallow inland waters.
Mateen Spanish controlled America had Arabic sounding names because they had been conquered by the Arabs for a good 200 years or so, so of course they would have some influence on the Spanish
OneWeird Boi That’s an interesting theory, and I see how it could be true. But how does one explain how they could even plan a tower the likes of which they were building and yet still be so primitive even after hundreds of years later? The Groups that settled and expanded on the main content/landmass (consisting of Europe, Asia and the middle east) all found metal, all built structures and large cities. But the closest the Americans came was building stone structures and obsidian weapons. How did none of that technical prowess come with the American settlers?
I mean, to be fair, he wasn't the first, and he didn't even land in America Edit: and he wasn't even looking for America, and he had thought he landed in India. Some navigator
Duran McLemore it was Amerigo Vespucci(also italian) who’s discovered that this wasn’t japan or India and a new continent. This why the whole continent is name after him. We should celebrate him because Columbus was kinda crazy.
I think his "sin" was writing about how easy it would be to use the people of Haiti as slaves. I have not fact check that data but I believe it might be true.
Julia Tanno he not only wrote about it but he actually ended up taking over 1000 of them back to Spain to be sold as slaves. The Arawaks that were lucky enough to be left behind were tasked with finding non existent gold or have their hands cut off. He was so brutal they began committing mass suicide as they had no way to protect their children from the brutality
Christopher Columbus had three ships on his first voyage, the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria. Columbus sailed from Palos de la Frontera on 3 August, 1492. His flagship, the Santa Maria had 52 men aboard while his other two ships, the Nina and Pinta were each crewed by 18 men.
GeneralSPatton Games Exactly. No one would be left including the animals! People are lazy. It's just a lot easier to blame others for your short comings and treat them like they owe u something than it is to get yourselves together and do for yourselves. These are the times we live in. One big global "u owe me" blame game.
I’m not arguing that Columbus was a mass murderer. I’m arguing that Columbus didn’t discover jack shit, because people were already living in the Americas for thousands of years prior. To argue otherwise is to completely ignore thousands of years of Native American history, culture, and civilization as if it never happened. And if Columbus didn’t discover anything, why have a holiday devoted to him? Especially since Native Americans don’t have a holiday. Italian Americans can still have a holiday. Just call it Italian American Day or whatever I can’t believe so many people are up in arms about Columbus Day. It’s the federal holiday people care least about. Unless Flag Day (June 14) is still a holiday
It’s a similar argument in Australia. Australia Day, January 26, is debated over and over as to its name and meaning. Sure, Aborigines got the rough end of the bargain, but compared to who might have settled Australia instead? They got off easy with the British, compared to the brutality of the Spanish, Belgians, Portuguese. Also, to suggest that Aborigines lived in harmony with each other is a crock. Hundreds of individual tribes inhabit the continent, each with their own dialect or language, each quite aggressive to the next. I grew up in the Outback; even in the 70s, when local tribes discovered the main police officer assigned to the area was a member of a neighboring tribe, he was run out of town. It’s not all peace and love, and history cannot be changed. Accept, and move on.
Humans got off easy with the Klingons, compared to the brutality of the Borgs or the Cardassians. Also, to suggest that Humans lived in harmony with each other is a crock. Hundreds of individual tribes inhabited the planet. Accept and move on.
It's a "Similar" argument because it's being presented by the SAME pretentious elitists. "Thinkers of the World" deciding what's "Best" for everyone else. They're literally BORED. They need a hobby. Like biking, hiking or crafting so they can BUTT THE HELL OUT of OUR lives. What they All _really_ need is 6 weeks of HARD, PHYSICAL larbor. But they've become WAY TOO pretentious and High-minded for any such thing.
I mean most americans wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for him he created a society that actually lasted thus creating people chances to create a new life in a new land.
Except... He isn't great in any way, and he didn't discover America, nor did he think it was anything but the (East) Indies, not even till the day he died did he change his mind.
@@Excedrine they didn't bring that many bullets and if 3 little boats of guys could wipe out 250,000 people then they were to weak to be alive only the strong survive
0:53 "first person to cross the Atlantic from the continent of Europe." That's where you might be wrong. There have been evidence that old Vikings had cross the Atlantic with a man named "Leif Erikson" around 1000 A.D. and had a short lived colony by the name of "Vinland".
Well, to be fair, Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic more or less directly, whereas Leif Eriksen went by way of Iceland, Greenland and then connected with North America.
They were the first but the discovery doesn't matter because they didn't know where they were and abandoned it a year later. Columbus discovering it led to western Civilization
I know that it wasnt said but the animation depicts it, buffalo were certainly driven to near extinction due to "white men" of the 1800s. Just for the fur, leaving meat to rot on the prairie.
I came here to like the comments that said this. That part of the animation, coupled with what he was saying was so damn disingenuous. I've only heard of Crowder before, but if this is what he does, I don't need to see more.
@@Epicurus33ad I probably agree with a lot of his views but a lot of his videos like this and the one on the crusades, anyone that knows just a little of the subject can poke holes in it
Actually, the Turks are partly the reason for why Columbus crossed the Atlantic. They blocked Europe from a trading route to India, and so there was a need for a new route. The Portuguese found a new sea-route by sailing around the African continent, while Columbus thought Asia could be reaches by sailing towards the west, and you know the rest. If the Turks didn't block that route, there wouldn't have been a need for a new one, and it might have taken longer before America was discovered.
@@JNC01 - As a child I was taught that the reason Spain and Queen Isabella we're able to finance Columbus's expedition was because they had finally thrown the Moors out of Spain. I don't think your argument holds water.
The most profoundly revolutionary achievement of the United States of America was the subordination of society to moral law. The principle of man’s individual rights represented the extension of morality into the social system - as a limitation on the power of the state, as man’s protection against the brute force of the collective, as the subordination of might to right. The United States was the first moral society in history. All previous systems had regarded man as a sacrificial means to the ends of others, and society as an end in itself. The United States regarded man as an end in himself, and society as a means to the peaceful, orderly, voluntary co-existence of individuals. All previous systems had held that man’s life belongs to society, that society can dispose of him in any way it pleases, and that any freedom he enjoys is his only by favor, by the permission of society, which may be revoked at any time. The United States held that man’s life is his by right (which means: by moral principle and by his nature), that a right is the property of an individual, that society as such has no rights, and that the only moral purpose of a government is the protection of individual rights. ~ Ayn Rand
It’s crazy how people in 2019 are getting pissy over someone who lived five hundred years ago, just leave the past alone and live your life for the time you’re in.
Zacnie prawisz no I’m not against Columbus Day, my thing is the guy was alive 500 years ago which means it’s in the past and there’s no way in hell anybody can change it unless there’s a Delorean around.
If the Republican Party continues to fight as hard and as smart as Lindsey Graham has the last two weeks, we will grow our majority in the house and attain 60 seats in the Senate.
Columbus Day is kind of like Stalin Day. Columbus really was that bad, not as bad as Stalin... but still bad. He was not a victim of his time. People back then were just as shocked as people today on his brutality. Sure, he was a great navigator, but he didn’t even discover the America first. Not even the mainland at that.
Lets not forget the native americans of Cahokia and the Mayans and Aztecs and their useage of human sacrafice to appease their gods. Not exactly peaceful or harmonious...
Yeah, the difference is that we don't have a special holiday commemorating the Aztec leaders as brave heroes. Let's at least be consistent: it would be disgusting to celebrate those Aztec priests, and it's disgusting today to celebrate Columbus.
This would be a valid point if there was a widespread "Montezuma II Day" and some natives were peaceful and this doesn't change the fact that Columbus was a murderer, come back next time and try again.
You almost made a point Heretical Hershey, now have Montezuma discover the artic or Antartica even if by mistake then you're getting some where. Humanity has come along way over the centuries something many on those left of center forget that or choose to ignore. Times were brutal and harsh. History is full of conquers, betrayals, treachery, and atrocities from various different cultures, a good number that weren't European. (Do you want mean to leave pages and pages detailing them?) People have a rose coloured view of history or parts of it if they are even aware of it all. BTW See Ninja Hombrepalito comment as well. I'm fine with pointing out that certain historical figures were only human and not saint like. But that's not impression I get from your comment was aiming for.
@@lastcharmed88 I find it hilarious how flippant you all are about massacres and genocides, but if someone tries to take away Columbus Day then for some reason thats what gets you heated. The rest of this is some bizarre historical Tu Quoque and its not worth either of our time.
@Heretical Hershey Now I know you're being intellectually dishonest since you are aware Columbus wasn't a Conquistador as evidenced by your response to Ninja Hombrepalito which I'll quote below. Important since we are *not* debating about Conquistador Day. Also the -genocide- mass deaths that you try to attribute to Columbus were the result of diseases that Europeans inadvertently brought with them. BTW You also don't seem concerned by the atrocities the native peoples of the early Americas wrought on the other or weaker tribes before and during Columbus' time. Slavery, human sacrifice, cannibalism, torture and war. Given how much you protest murder and atrocities it would be hypocritical to give those a pass. So Columbus Day is anti flat Earth by its nature. Given the surge in flat Earthers and anti vaxxers any holiday that takes either of them down a peg is fine by me. His voyage was confirmation of the then growing belief that the Earth is round. Most importantly I'm not pro historical revisionists. I prefer to be aware of humanities mistakes. For if we try to rewrite it, even if to suit an agenda, we still set the truth to be forgotten. Forget our mistakes, and by extension, the reasons for them would leave ourselves vulnerable to repeat them. Attempts to tear down Columbus Day is hardly an isolated incident. Are you going to pretend that it is? I haven't forgotten that trying to destroy certain historical identities was a tactic employed in the Mao's cultural revolution or by Stalin or even by Germany's National Socialists in 1933 burning books of philosophers or history that stated views the National Socialists found to be problematic. _____Reference Quote______ Ninja Hombrepalito: ...the Europeans (the Spanish and Portuguese more accurately) came to conquer, hence, Conquistadors... And Christopher Columbus was not part of the Conquistadors. Get your facts straight! You : How do I like this comment 161 times?
But the vikings did not create a civilization. Columbus created a civilization that actually lasted and this gave the european people a chance to create a new life in the americas.
@@bobby9147 sayinf that columbus created civilasition is wrong columbus found the americans and managed to return with the information to spain and the shelters came throught north and south america and created civilizations along with the already existing ones
@@bobby9147 well , there was way more with the vikings in the americas than we all might think. They actually had settlements all over the coast of Labrador peninsula and modern day Quebec , the larget being called Vinalnd. They have traded with native americans and even brought a native american woman to Iceland , her genes are still preset in the dna of some Icelandic sitizens. Unfortunately , the entire thing has kinda fallen apart and the natives have never seen vikings again. Just imagine how different the world would be if it all had carried on - my god.
@@bobby9147 *laughing intensely* Well he did jump start the god awful nightmare that was the spanish colonies which later became independent nations, but really that's it and only re-affirms what an awful person he was. The U.S. and Canada were founded by the British and French who came on their own accord
1. Self critique is not self hatred 2. Columbus wasn’t even the first to the New World 3. The Spanish were not necessarily more advanced than native Americans. The Spanish never bathed 4. Native Americans are dead because of European imperialism. Is it wrong to disagree with celebration of that?
Portuguese used the charts made by Vikings who beat them all by centuries. The king of Portugal got the charts as part of a marriage agreement with Scandinavians
LadyBlaidd the study of the Atlantic North water currents, were all done by the Sagres Naval school opened around 1415, and it took decades to the portuguese to be able to arrive in America in 1473. So no help from the Vikings there. Columbus only used what he learned in the portuguese Sagres naval school after studying there from 1480 to 1490
Native Americans brutally slaughtered each other, and the many, many European colonies who were forced to traverse the Atlantic on behalf of some month back home. They were called SAVAGES by people, who at the time would have been considered "savage" by today's standards, even by Romean standards and they forced slaves to reenact battles to the death. Native Americans lost, pure and simple and they fought hard, so props, but they still lost. Oh and by the way, before any libtards bring it up, "Indian giver" is a term to outline the Indians inability to adhere or understand basic social contracts that allow society to function and agreements to be upheld. In other words, Europeans never shat on agreements they entered into with the Indians, all the "shit" came from the Indians. Besides, look at what the Europeans brought, had it not been for European conquest, America would be indistinguishable from the uncontacted tribes of central and south America. And, yes, I am Native American of the Apache Nation.
Durethia maybe your tribe sucked at keeping agreements, but everyone of the treaties of my tribe were broken by the US gov or settlers that the gov protected later to take more land. And none of this fought hard but lost stuff....otherwise that’s like if someone jumps you , beats you and takes your paycheck money and your not gonna say that’s wrong someone help me fix this injustice(usually the police). Or are you gonna say well I fought hard but be beat me....hope he enjoys my money..oops I mean his money, wouldn’t want to make him feel bad.
Stanley Chaney no Natives Gets free money. The USA forced Natives by gunpoint to agree to some horrible one sided agreements. Every part of the agreement that Natives benefit from was first approved by the guy holding the gun to the Native’s head. The agreement is a contract between two government in which one gov took all the land and resources of the other and then said we will PAY you this, because we OWE you this for all the stuff we are taking. You are crying like if your coworker sold his house to your boss and your boss has been paying him over the years because they made a deal and you don’t get any “free money” from the boss.
Native Americans actually kept the bison population very stable prior to the 19th century. What caused their near extinction was the increase in farmland, therefore destroying the natural bison habitat, and also the hunting practices of non-natives.
@@notsoverysmartperson4743 \ I mean he didn't have a GPS or an actual working map. Compared to today's generation he would be able to travel significantly better than the vast majority. So what are we comparing here? Can you imagine traveling to the unknown with a crappy boat, no type of medications, no escape plans or anything? They have no lifeboats or any easy source of food or water. Even basic hygienic items were non-existent. Fck that
The fact that he cited Wounded Knee is hilarious. The moment people start defending themselves I guess it becomes a “battle”. Even though Wounded Knee was the first time the US military used machine guns, using the Native Americans as literally target practice.
Source? (Not asking antagonistically, I genuinely want to know where you got the information so I can look into it for myself and hopefully learn more.)
I'm a big fan of crowder, Prager, and most of the other intellectual dark Web guys, I'm also an Indian. It's true we didn't practice true environmental conservation, and we LOVE WAR, and a little slavery. (I'm pretty sure my grandparents ate people) BUT there's some responsibility to be merciful to the people you annilate, and my only grevience is the land grabs WHICH WHERE NOT COLUMBUS' FAULT (the massicures, and atrocities where choices made by fat old generals)
Come on, you guys were conquered and survived as race against the odds. Some thanks to white people that DID take a responsibility of the their conquest and you and millions of your race are living among us. At least you ended up in USA, it would suck much more if it was Russia or China.
I see what your saying, and yes a lot of whites were not bad at all, but that doesn't make up for the wrongs the ones in power did commit. I'm not saying I'm angry, and I'm not saying that bad things are still happening. ease of the government, all I'm saying is their was some advantage taken and I'm remorseful of how history happened.
Nice hearing this from a Native American. Leftists like to equate race with culture a lot, so they understand that when conservatives say Indians weren't the most civilized group of people around, they aren't saying Native American people are inherently inferior. The actions of your ancestors have no bearing when you decide to join the American way of life, and from the sounds of it, you are more of a true American than even most white people.
Europeans (Romans) had magnificent buildings and road networks that exist to this day. Native Americans were still in the stone age 1800 years later. If it weren't for European medicine, they'd be still be dying at a very young age from simple infections and colds, and if it weren't for European law, they'd still be slaughtering each other as they were doing all along. I had a fiancee who was Cherokee, the elders were telling me (I'm European) that they were more benefited than hurt overall.
I have talked about that with them - I was living in the Cherokee Nation after all (near Tahlequah). Sure, mistakes were made (mostly by the Democrats, who violated the agreements), but given the shift in military power balance after all developments, the Cherokee (and others) were in a vastly inferior position vs. other tribes. May I remind you also that only the strongest tribes (Comanche) had actual roots (more defined borders) - most tribes were changing places depending on where the food went or where they'd be safer. Roots are not eternal you know: th-cam.com/video/Iha3OS8ShYs/w-d-xo.html
Ok, gotcha on this one. Colombus was NOT the first European to cross the Atlantic, and he DID have maps. There is evidence that the Knights Templar had been sailing the Atlantic to mine silver in South America in the two centuries prior to Columbus' 1492 voyage. He was married into a Templar family, and his ships had the Templar cross on the sails.
LukeDaDuke, refer to "The Warriors and the Bankers", a history of the Knights Templar from 1307 to the present, by Alan Butler and Stephen Dafoe. See pp 47-51.
Discovery requires sharing the knowledge with the greater world. Discover FOR EUROPE. If you want to claim "just discovery" then the natives discovered it first.
Happy Indigenous People’s Day. I’m a history teacher and I know that gets your blood boiling. I will say that everything he said is true. I try to teach history through perspective. Native Americans look at this history differently than Europeans. It is a hard truth that Native Americans were nearly made extinct because of the diseases brought by the Europeans. Yes, the Native Americans lost. That is history. For so long history of the USA was only taught through one point of view; the victors. It’s important to see how all participants view these events because these perspectives tend to collide into adjacent and future events. This country has an extremely complicated history that should be taught.
I dont believe youre a history teacher. Yes, US history and history in general is complicated, but cmon Mr. Jones. SURELY you know about the Trail of Tears. Thats literal ethnic cleansing, considering how we uprooted entire tribes and moved them so we could possess their lands. SURELY you know about how the US used Manifest Destiny to justify aggression toward and expansion into their territory. SURELY you know about how often we'd kill or forcibly relocate tribes that lived on land that happened to be valuable. SURELY you know about the Massacre of Sand Creek, wherein about 150 native Americans, mostly women and children, were killed by US soldiers as they were literally just chilling. Oh but 25 soldiers died, so i guess that was a battle and not just people fighting back and trying not to die.
@@unovasfinest2623 literally hundreds of massacres were perpetrated by native Americans against colonists, if you hat this country so much, go away you have these “evil colonists” to thank for your easy life
@@nostradamus2231 Yes. There were many massacres done by the natives against the colonists. At some points there was outright attempts to purge colonists from entire areas, which is genocide and wrong. However, it is important to remember that colonists LITERALLY squat on their land by definition and posed an existential threat by their desire to expand constantly. And are you seriously gonna try and tell me that massacres were done in equal parts by natives and European settlers? You know how the Spanish took half the Western Hemisphere in like 150 years? By rolling over the weaker native tribes, enslaving them, playing the larger nations against eachother to weaken them, and then rolling them over and enslaving them. Shit like this was helped along by the purposeful spread of Old World diseases. And then look at the United States in the 19th century. You gonna tell me it was a fair give and take? Just warfare? And for the record i dont hate the country, and you dont know my life. So i dunno where youre getting these strawmen from
@@brycemcdonald846 I never said i hate America. I rather like it. What i do hate is when people push historical revisionism to strengthen their propaganda and further their political agenda, which is what PragerU does. They're videos are all debunked nonsense and not even consistent with eachother. What i do hate is when people ignore the flaws of America in its past and present. And what i hate most is when people dont try to fix existing problems. I want to IMPROVE America and make it really live up to its ideals of liberty and justice for all people.
Honestly, I don't think I ever observed Columbus Day. It always seemed more of a bank holiday. There does seem to be some evidence that a few Viking and Asian sailors discovered the Americas before Columbus. However, I can understand why Italian Americans would want to honor him. In the US, we don't celebrate St Patrick's Day the way we should, but more as a celebration of the Irish Culture and History. Perhaps Columbus Day could morph into a celebration of famous Italians and their culture? It would recognize the accomplishments of Columbus, Michelangelo, & Da Vinci to name a few. It would be more like Octoberfest. Of course this is only my personal opinion on the matter.
Columbus was Spanish I think. The Portugese govt. thought it was stupid to sail around the ocean to get to India for spices, so he asked the Spanish and they let him do it instead. He didn't find India, and instead found the Americas.
I am sorry that the truth (genocide on Indians) is offending you to the point that you suck and swallow historic revisionism written by boomer neocons.
@@reharl4953 Sorry, but using period doesn't make you sound intelectual at all neither you 20 year old boomer ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ plus you know that what you just wrote was literally a hate comment? Pathetic¨
Colombus’ three ships were the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria
something tell me that you didn't learn that from history textbook
Macho Man Randy Savage
Thank you, I was deeply ashamed and horrified that I couldn't remember the pinta
maddai
I'll do you in the bottom while you're drinking sangria! Nachos and lemon heads and my dad's boat...
Macho Man Randy Savage dammit I was going to say the mayflower but yea that sounds right my guy
The Nina, Pinta and the Santa Maria Occasio-Cortez
nice
They lovingly called her "Ol' Crazy Eyes"
@@donnajocatlady3839 Or the Socialist Democrats' "B****** child." Man, if only the Dems were still JFK's party. Who knows how well America would be united if that were so.
Daniel I don’t get it. Can you explain it to me?
@@juhaniaho6698 those are the names of the ships
Demonitized in 3...2...1...
I don’t think they monetize videos
R not if Steven Crowder is in it. TH-cam sees his name, automatically demonitized
You can't be demonitized if you don't try to monitize
Remonitized in 3...2...1...
Christopher Columbus: "India?"
America: "Do I look-"
😂😂😂😂
Dead vine
India was the name for Asia and then it was called Western Indies. The idea of continental masses wasn't a thing back then and thats why they understood America as "the new world" as opposed to the "old world". They would basically say there are only two continents: America (the new world) and Africaeuroaustralasia continent.
Columbus: *_i n d i a_*
The Icon of Sin Is that something you just read in a Vox article?
Another word or term for it is the Noble Savage Myth, the false notion that all indigenous people were always peaceful and passive. Most native cultures fought wars with other native cultures. Why do you think they had weapons, spears, and shields? There has never been a Utopian culture.
For all of its historical inaccuracies, that's one of my favorite parts of Disney's Pocahontas. How are we introduced to the natives? They're coming back FROM WAR. Violence is a HUMAN thing, not a WHITE thing. lol
Don't even start on how women were treated. They were basically slaves for their husbands in most societies, and the only way to leave him was to find some other guy who was stronger and move in with him.
James Matise
Maybe for the east coast tribes, but the Cheyenne had absurdly liberated women. If a woman had not yet born her husband any children, she could dump him whenever she pleased! He could do nothing to protest. Actually, many such abandoned men became suicidally self destructive as a result.
Parkman, France and England in North America. Read it. A classic. Free on Internet. He knew and lived with Indians. Slavery, torture, cannibalism. But, certainly, they have changed. The Spanish, Jesuits and the French were no altar boys. _Thank God_ the English won!
@@Bobsheaux well said
Let's just say nobody was a saint nor innocent in the entire conflict.
This I agree with.
Except me, i didnt do anything
Agreed, but my teachers taught the story as if Natives were infallible angels.
I don't see why it matters. It was centuries ago. Frankly I prefer my solid houses and paved roads to tepees and disease.
Teachers generally still stick with the myth of the 'noble savage' from Rouseu.
The Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria.
I'm a child of the 70's and 80's, most of our teachers weren't self-loathing haters of America...yet.
Furball2k even the beginning of the 90s I remember my teachers in Mexico sin I grew up there because my mom was Mexican they didn’t teach me about him being a bad person at least I don’t remember any bad teachings about Columbus:
Happy ILF (Indigenous and Leif Erikson) day. All Credit goes to Indigenous people and the Vikings including Bjarni Herjolfsson and Leif Erikson.
Furball2k I'm right there with you. Born in" 71" I went to Catholic School untill high school and my junior year English literature teacher was my first ( in the fall of 87) experience with a fully indoctrinated, feminist, self hated , white guilt filled liberal nut job and I thought she should not be teaching kids!!!
No it was the mercury topaz the ford galaxy and the Chevy nova
Don’t worry there still some people born past 2000 who still have not been indoctrinated
Why doesn't anyone remember Eric the first European to land in north America
@Jordan Morris and that impact was making sure to kill everyone and steal their valuables
He never set foot in America either.
Eric the Half-a-Bee discovered America?!
Eric Clapton as part of the British invasion? Oh no! Strip him of any grammies and rock and roll nominations or inductions he must have. I knew it! Racism from the English! I knew it!
@@steveovicX as opposed to which other group in human history?
As a student studying forest ecology, Native Americans did NOT live in harmony with nature, but rather in harmony with their anthropogenic environment. For example: early explorers described savannas and prairies in what would become South Carolina. These environments were products of fires intentional set by Natives. Today these areas have returned to forest, due to early 20th century fire suppression.
tcbarnes290 so you’re equating a comparatively small region of deforestation to what the settlers did.....I would think that a person studying forest ecology would have access to the before and after maps of forests in the USA. Either your school is terrible or you’re being disingenuous. No one argues that Natives didn’t use the land and resources.
Mystdragon
He was talking about the early explorers that came to what is now the US. They landed in what is now South Carolina. Those same deforestation techniques were used all over the US. The Mound builders and their ancestors did the same all through the interior. Those first settlers couldn't comment on the whole of the US, only the part they were familiar with. It took centuries to discover and map the continent. Those settlers had no idea of the existence of tribes like the Comanche, Sioux and Blackfoot.
... u better change majors... ull never become a supreme court justice with that kind of posting in your past!
@@mystdragon8530 :
"So what you're saying is...."
(I love when people answer a question that wasn't asked simply because they wish it were.)
If you can't argue, go back to your Bill Nye coloring book, SweetPea.
That slag from Channel 4 already tried the whole "So you're saying", "So you're equating", "So you're_______" with Jordan Peterson.
It didn't work.
Now shut up and go see if Al Gore has any beer cans to recycle.
William F. Buckley Jr or is it Mazie Hirono, since you like to tell people you disagree with to “shut up”, go put on your mask and protest some free speech event since you obviously don’t respect the 1st amendment.
Columbus’ 3 ships were the Nina, the Pinta, and the Alexandria Ocasio Santa Maria Cortez
SexyCheeze I’m dieing lol 😂
*La Niña
Too bad he said he was the best navigator of his time. Not even close. That title most likely goes to Vasco da Gama or Bartolomeu Dias.
João Silva True
João Silva
I found the other Portuguese person in the comments section.
Don’t forget $99 for the Mug Club membership. Oh wait wrong video? But .. but Steven..
Only $69 if you're a student, active military, or veteran.
I tried getting the mug, but apparently it didn't go through...? I have been confused for the past 5 weeks
... and remember the Lowder With Crowder studios are protected exclusively by Walther (and Hopper).
A year
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DON'T U DARE TRY TO GET RID OF COLUMBUS DAY, THAT'S A FREE DAY OUT OF SCHOOL😡
Hahahahaha. You have many more days out of school per week. You’ll survive, little mutton
the only intelligent comment in this entire comment section
A-Aron D. Dead meme
You'll still get a free day😉
You just won't have to be reminded of a lost idiot at sea lol
Meanwhile in real news:
Unemployment hits a 49 year low of 3.7% as the economy adds 134,000 jobs in September alone.
This is the strongest economy in American history.
Thanks to Trump, or to Obama ?
So now is the time to get rid of all socialistic welfare, and subsidizing single moms.
SCharlesDennicon - Why did the economy not grow under Obama if it was thanks to him then?
You literally copied this word for word from Charlie Kirk.
@@namelessking8905 Is it really the case ? The US economy didn't get better under Obama ? I'm a foreigner (who disliked Obama and like Trump, mainly for what he represents), and I keep hearing leftists tell me that Trump's economics suck and the just inherited Obama's...
I’d like to read the sources for these because I’m interested in the topic. Is there any chance PragerU could start leaving links to their sources in the description? I think this would be useful to the people watching the videos, and I think it would add to their credibility.
THEY NEVER DO AND IT PISSES ME OFF
Mr. Fix It Saying “it’s all common sense” isn’t great justification for not having citations.
you know that columbus was arrest in spain for excessive cruelty to the natives he made them bring lots of gold in a short time or their hands were chopped off, the tale of colombus was written way after his life and it was mostl a lie that is taught in school, which historians disagree on the schools, and where did you get the source that the natives were cannibals?
you think PragerU does not know this? They're obviously doing it on purpose. The question is why?
@@MrFixIt-le7tl common knowledge isn't always correct just because it's common knowledge.
And linking your sources has nothing to do with social justice Warriors. It's all about adding credibility to what you're saying and actually being able to back up what you're saying with actual facts. You also need to see where that information is coming from. If you don't store see any of your information especially things like this then you could just be lying or making stuff up. Or taking stuff that from a website that was made up. Credibility and reputable information is nuanced. Facts don't have a political leaning. Just because the truth and the facts don't agree with what you got doesn't mean they're incorrect either.
The ships were:
The Enterprise
The Galactica
And the Millennium Falcon.
Easy!
I see you’ve read the silver six.
😂😂😂
Epic 👏
Wrong century mate.
@@dennisoneill8148 Nah fam, you're thinking the wrong history.
Crowder: Columbus was the first to sail across the Atlantic
Leif Eriskon: am I a joke to you?
MrBlackMetal Animations and Gaming I love Steven Crowder, but yeah, he was wrong about that
Columbus put the seed of what is now American continent.
Erikson arrived, took a look and turned. Irrelevant.
Didn’t he cross the Arctic Ocean though?
NO, Eriskon went to america through Arctic Ocean. Greenland is not a part of Atlantic.
Leif Eriksson? And his great discovery survives by the hundreds of millions of people who speak Norwegian in the world and the universal heritage of humanity that the Vikings left in America
Steven Crowder needs to be in every PragerU video. Change my mind.
CrowderU
Nah id think he's the best. I like ben Shapiro more
Well, Steven Crowder isn't an expert, which is why he calls the experts for a summary on his show. PragerU does the same because they're responsible, and they want people who know their topic well.
@@benjaminmunk yeah really that's what I'm saying. his arguments and videos are pretty childish imho.. he would be great for already conservative people to watch, but for people to change their mind, he would be really childish
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@bANoMia hehe probably so
A few weeks ago in history class, we were talking about early American settlement, and I swear, my history teacher is trying to brainwash us. She played videos in class that essentially told us that Columbus was an angry murderer and that the natives were peaceful folk. We had to argue a point in class about whether or not Columbus Day should still be celebrated, and I was literally the only person in the entire class who said that Columbus Day should still be celebrated. And when I chose to state said opinion, my teacher just rolled her eyes at me. I had to justify said opinion in front of the entire goddamn class, and I've been getting looked down upon by all of my peers ever since, simply because I didn't follow the opinions of the rest of the mob. This is why I hate the public school system.
Well he did feed people to dogs and chop the noses off slaves who didn't meet his gold quota so i would say not to celebrate him
I’m taking you to flavor town You are just proving his point.
Trust me fam, I know how you feel.
"lisa"...keep the courage. But also remember that teachers have a lot of power to destroy you so sometimes you need to remain silent to survive. It's a tough choice.
It’s just the same at my private school. These people are so liberal it’s crazy. During Spanish today, there was the one girl who saw an issue on a worksheet. It said something Along the lines of “ask you partner... and record his/her response”. She corrected it to his/her/their after saying it’s 2018 for god’s sake. I feel you
How about we celibrate the first Europeans that discover America instead, the Vikings. Happy Lief Ericksson day.
He couldn't hack it up there in Newfoundland and had to hightail it back to Norway. He was soft.
Because the Vikings didn't bring 2 world's together.
We should have a holiday that talks about this and uses it as an illustrative story as to why people should not go exploring underprepared. Their failure was historically very significant. The Americas would be very different had they successfully colonized.
Hifleking dinging dorgon.
Leiv Eiriksson*
Election Day should be a national holiday, any opinion on that??
No because that would mean more poor people could vote
@@w0ndawar So? social or economic status should never determine who can vote or not. In a true democracy every adult citizens should have the right to vote.
@@redblaze8700 America is not a "True Democracy" It is a republic which is a type of Democracy.
Noah Dempsey Still, if you want to live up to the reputation of being democratic you should allow every adult citizens to vote
@@redblaze8700 Fine with me. Every Adult citizen who has not committed murder or rape should have the right to vote. I don't have a problem with poor people voting, I was only arguing that America is not a "True Democracy."
if you're gonna get rid of Columbus day at least make it Leif eriksson day
NorskVikingen His discovery was useless because he left after a year and forgot about it. Columbus’ discovery lead to uniting of east and west. Not the same thing
*HINGA DINGA DURGEN*
@@NPC-rx4bv eehh....if it will get the snowflakes to shut up. Fine by me
Karl Franz They’ll never shut up. They will always find something to talk about because if they don’t, they will become irrelevant.
Doesn't change the fact that he got there first. And at least he reached the mainland, unlike Columbus. And unlike Columbus, Leif Eriksson tried to establish a permanent settlement. They were both brave explorers who reached a far and strange land. They had different goals, and ended up with different outcomes; but regardless of how one feels about them as men, they should both be recognized for their achievements.
Here's my problem. Christopher Columbus just wasn't a very good person, and the history shows this. Not by our standards, and not by the standards of his own time. He had strict instructions from Queen Isabella of Spain to treat the natives with kindness, so they could be converted. From Columbus' own writing, he stated, upon seeing the primitive weapons of the Arawaks, "I could conquer the whole of them with 50 men, and govern them as I pleased." He also said of them, "They ought to make good and skilled servants... I think they can very easily be made Christians, for they seem to have no religion."
He cheated his own men out of a lifetime pension, angered Queen Isabella with his brutality and was jailed for it, and gave native women that he had captured to his men, to be raped. This is not someone to be admired. He was so invested in the slave trade, that he went against the orders of the Spanish monarchy, and prevented the baptizing of natives so they could remain slaves. He was arrested for his gross mismanagement of Cuba, and his term as governor ended in humiliation and disgrace.
None of this condemns European exploration or settlement of the Americas. None of this makes the United States, a nation founded three centuries after Columbus' voyages, complicit. But it does make Christopher Columbus a man that no one should admire. He stumbled into greatness, because he managed to miscalculate the size of the earth, and when he saw the opportunity, he used it to make himself rich off of human suffering.
Yup, thank you for that, he was a bad dude, I think Crowder was pointing out convient inaccuracies.
I love Crowder but for real, Columbus was a peice of shit.
That’s a very badly misinterpreted line from his diaries.
He was also restored his titles and fell sick and died at 53 before he could go back to being governor
Jay Sway exactly this
I don't know what and was not true, but I have heard that a lot of the bad things about him were written by a guy who in life was a big enemy of him, and may not be true.
Well done Steven. My 9 year old was given a bunch of anti-Columbus material and told to do a report. So we threw all that material away and basically helped him give this same presentation. The teacher seemed pretty peeved, but couldn't refute anything. It was glorious.
Parenting done right.
Thank god we have some good parents left these days.
I feel bad for your son, he's going to be in for a rough ride with all the feminist indoctrination in academia these days.
@ Landon McCoy
Thank you for being an involved parent!
Do you teach your child that Columbus never step foot in North America? Because, if you do even a glance of research, he never did.
I don't even understand what this comment is supposed to be. My kid had all this homework that said Columbus was a slave driving murderer. But truth has a liberal bias so we threw that away and replaced it with a Prager "not actually a university" University video.
Hey there, Caribbean dude here, I'm from one of the places he actually discovered.
Yeah, he never actually set foot in America, but I’ll still give good ol Columbus some credit.
@@henryworks9089 I believe he made trips to South America, if memory serves me correctly.
Sadly, he never landed on North America, and visited Columbus, Ohio.... ;-)
@@RichardBonomo nope, that credit goes to lief Erickson
@@albertbecerra leif eriksson not "lief erickson" he was not an american patriot he was a norwegian/icelandic man.
@@Spoontamer4 I know, my point is that eriksson is the first European to discover the northern region. Of course they never made any settlements that lasted long though😅
It’s truly impressive how uneducated or indoctrinated most people are.
Fact 1- Columbus defeated Godzilla’s cousin in an epic sea battle half way across the Atlantic.
Fact 2- The 4th ship, the “Taco Bell” was taken over by the crew in a mutiny and was said to have set out in search of Atlantis.
Fact 3- When they reached Merica Columbus used his wizard magic to summon a great feast and invited the neighborhood to the party.
Fact 4- Native Americans were so impressed with the mashed potatoes they declared all of what we know now as the continental U.S. to be Merica.
Fact 5- Turns out Chris forgot to wash his hands when magicking up the feast and 90% of the natives died from aids.
Fact 6: After Columbus, while using Excalibur, defeated Alduin defending the Fountain of Youth, he was unable to drink it since the wounds from his battle resulted in death.
Fact 7: After landing in the Carribean, Columbus created the very first "Hurricane Harbor" for the indians to enjoy as a vacation resort: this is where season passes were first invented.
@@kdot7175 Fact 8: Columbus shot up a school for sounding a little too much like his name 😂
You forgot the part where the natives were wished back to life with the Dragon Balls
Damn it, don't ya hate it when you get AIDS from dirty hands! Timmy, let that be a lesson to ya!
Why can’t we just have both on different days. I’ll take any days off I can get
Señor Swirls I agree
This is exactly what I have been saying! I'm thankful for the world we live in today, and owe Columbus some respect for that. Nonetheless, I do have respect for the indigenous way of life that was sacrificed for the greater good.
I don't care if it's a Hitler day, I want days off
@@Slanghomy why do u owe colombus anything? he didnt do shit for naught but himself, without him we'd still have 1000's of native american civilizations and history to look back on but now we don't singlehandedly because of him.
@@-divinetragedy You're right and my views have changed. Columbus isn't worthy of any respect.
Niña, Pinta, Santa Maria. That was easy.
Boats and hoes, boats and hoes?
No, I don’t think that they brought hoes on the ships. Correct me if I’m wrong.
Definitely wrong. They also brought nachos and lemonheads.
They didn’t even have nachos at all. Maybe lemon heads.
Plus; it wasn't even his boat. It was his dads.
Leif Erikson: We do live in a society.
🤣🤣🤣
Tlaxcaltec: my mom was killed by the Aztecs
Aztec: my mom was killed by conquistadors
Tlaxcaltec: I wonder who is deader?
Dayum. Best comment ever.
Best part is the tlaxcaltecas still have their own state
Crowder failed to the mention the fact that Columbus enslaved many of the friendly native Americans and used brutal punishment to motivate forced labor. He also failed to mention that most of the victims of wounded knee were women and children. That's what's called a massacre. He didn't mention the hundreds of treaties the U.S. broke with the natives. He didn't mention the forced removal of Indians which lead to the trail of tears which killed many thousands of people. He didn't mention the long list of massacres were many women and children died. Also the Indians didn't hunt the buffalo to near Extinction. There is plenty of evidence that the American government had a policy of killing buffalo in mass to cut off the plains Indians main source of food and fabric material. This is one of the most ridicules videos I have ever seen.
Columbus/Spanish with help of the Catholic Church enslaved many of the friendly and non friendly Native Americans.
The United States is responsible for it's small part of the Americas these past two hundred, thirty plus years.
The country of Mexico still battles this very day Native Maya tribes in the Yucatan.
Also while Wounded Knee was a massacre with the murder of women and children.
Again after another "ghost dance" the Lakota were trying to leave their reservation and were told might happen days before they decided to leave.
The Lakota were told and knew leaving the reservation would be an act of war.
Besides Lakota were guarded by the US 7th Cavalry regiment, the same regiment (US Army designated name only) massacred during the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
While Steven Crowder did not mention the treaties broken by the U.S. with the Native Americans, He also did not mention those treaties broken by the Spanish, French, Dutch, British or the treaties broken by the Native Americans themselves.
While it was comical showing the Native Americans hunting to extinction the buffalo.
The Native Americans did hunt several different North American species like the horse, camel, American Lion and other tribes of Native American peoples.
When Georgia became the forth state in the United States, members of the Cherokee and Creek tribes owned more slaves than the whites in the coastal lowlands of the state.
Methodism was one of the largest Christian denominations in the south among Native American tribes.
When the United Methodist Association outlawed slavery from their ranks of members, there was a mass exodus of converted Native Americans from the Methodist Church.
* ”Progressive” leftist: I wonder which death can garner me more power and money?
Pinta, Nina, Santa Maria.
Sgt. Savage niña with an “Ñ”
As of yet we do not speak spanish.
Boats n hoes
@@FredDurst00 gotta have them
@@lukesalazar9283 *_DEADASS_*
El Niño, Ford Pinto, Santa Claus?
Pinto, Vega, and Monte Carlo
omg, how dare you! ford pinto's killed countless native Americans who used demo-ratic free loans in the 70's, trying to wipe out an entire tribe... you just melted snowflakes!
What
Congrats, you won the internet.
Wrong. It's Bowsette, Zelda and Princess Peach.
I totally agree with this whole video, but the guy was actually a pretty terrible navigator, he was looking for a new trade route to India and literally ended up on the opposite side of the earth.
Well remember that nobody knew this new land existed so Columbus just figured that if the earth were round he could just sail west until he reached India, and you can reach India if you sail west from Europe, its just that there's a giant continent in the way.
Yeah, and it wasn’t him that discovered America, it was Leaf Erikson
@@that1guywhostillplaysbf491 He only sailed to the west because he was bad at math.
1492 and you see dark people, not knowing America existed. I don’t see how he can be considered bad. That’s like saying Thomas Edison was awful at creating lightbulbs.
So bad that he could cross six times the Atlantic Ocean in a boat that you woudn't trust to go fishing one mile offshore, arriving either to Spain or the Hispaniola with not even a wristwatch, not to mention a sextant, a chart or the astronomic tables. Things needed before you were able to switch on your GPS.
He had the knowledge, the will and the balls that you will never get in a thousand years life.
Where's my Leif Erikson day? Us marginalized Vikings need recognition!
Yarga hinga ginga!
WE*... WE MARGINALIZED...
He may have discovered America, but he didn't do anything about it. He didn't tell anyone (in a way that ended up mattering) and Europe did not colonize the Americas because of him.
If I found out some Viking discovered electricity in 1207 and told nobody and did nothing with it, I wouldn't give them much recognition either.
Fake news. Greenland was still covered by miles of ice. Only NOW is it melting ... Al Gorp. LOL
When Greenland was discovered it was warmer than it is today, and they abandoned it because it got too cold.
Steven Crowder in a PragerU video? Hell yeah! Happy Columbus Day!
So you are in favor of a murderer and possible slave trader?
Cesar Murillo You definitely can't deny the dramatic changes that happened cause of Columbus's arrival in the Americas that were both positive and negative, but I think that going forward, it makes more sense to make the day about indigenous peoples instead of Columbus. Indigenous communities have a longer history in the present-day United States than any other community, and they've have made contributions to American society that are often overlooked (like the Navajo code-talkers whose unbreakable Navajo-language code system was vital to America's victory over the Japanese in World War II), so it makes sense that there'd be a day that encourages Americans to learn more about indigenous history and cultures.
The evils of the Aztecs don't excuse the equal evils of Cortez or the lesser evils of Columbus though.
*Lifts larp saber up in the air like a mongol soldier.*
@Jean Pierre Polnareff nah, I think I will stay here. Lol.
You shouldn’t have titled this “Goodbye” you should have titled this “Happy” Colombus Day.
I actually think the title was a play on the 1969 film Goodbye Columbus.
@@somename6955
But thanks to TH-cam's algorithms those people won't ever see this video anyway.
The title has more shock value.
Zayan Watchel it would’ve gotten flagged if they did.
Oh but that's not sensationalist enough for the hysteria these guys dwell in.
The moment when you literally argue for a guy who sold nine-year olds as sex slaves.
So the theme of video is that Natives or whatever and Europeans weren’t perfect
Genesis 3; Romans 3:23
pretty much and to try and dispel and remove all anti American and western lies of the far let.
+Mike Wazowski Yep, who knew that people both now and then aren't perfect?! True news fam.
Do you people understand that those “liberal professors” you keep raging about also repudiate the myth of the angelic natives too right? Nobody who has even a shred of credibility in the study of native Americans cultures perpetuate this myth. Native Americans were too diverse to paint them as anything, based on just distance between them. Some natives never saw a white person until way after the US was established. You people need to stop arguing about mythical “liberal professors” and actually go to collee
Krista Zurawski I really want to know where this liberal education you speak of is taught. Cuz I went to school in liberal kale yoga New York City and all I ever learned about Columbus was how he was a brilliant navigator who never did anything wrong.
What about the fact that today ISN'T Columbus day. It's on Friday. Columbus "discovered America" on October 12th, 1492... not on the 8th. On the 8th, his crew was on the verge of committing mutiny.
I am sure you're just joking about the date thing, but federal holidays tend to be on Mondays for convenience. Memorial, Labor, Columbus, Martin Luther King, Jr., etc.
Thank you. I have never liked how the Monday holiday bill messed things up. If a holiday is worth celebrating it is worth celebrating on the right day.
yeah just move the Columbus day to the correct day and the whole thing becomes like Halloween and all saints day 2 holidays one celebrated and one not.
Today is also my birthday. So that would've been interesting.
Well, we have to balance out those holidays. Second Monday of October AFAIK.
I'm pretty sure one of Columbus' ships was Boaty Mcboatface.
And uhhh, Santa Claus and Pina Colada
LMAO
I was going to say Ormurin Langi (Long Serpent), until I realized it was a 120 ft Viking ship owned by King Olaf. He used it to defeat a Sorcer King called Raud the Strong, after he refused to convert to Jesus.
To quote the great Michael Knowles, “You are standing on the shoulders of giants and you think you are flying, but you are not. And you spit down on that great man with your ingratitude”
I trust Ben Shapiro more then Michael
"How dare you not appreciate the genocidal maniac! Look at the shareholder profits!"
Great man lol, Columbus was a degenerate rapist and mass murderer
Angelo DiMeo nope.
The Icon of Sin not even close but okay
Who actually gives a shit about Columbus Day? It's just an excuse for us to have a three day weekend.
PooleParty24/7 facts 😂
@@frankiefernandez7129 What is this?
Facebook?
@@aaa-dj9bx Your username is Milky White Apple Boi. If informality is what you're pointing out, you have no room to talk.
@@davidwins8987 I'm not pointing out the informality. I'm pointing out how generic it is
Just like South Park said....we just want our long weekend
False history to forward stupid political agendas is annoying.
batmanfanforever08 💯💯
The only thing matters is Colombus is first in recorded history, but not in historical landfall. An older civilization beat him to it.
Yeah, Prager's annoying
Why not provide an example of what was false? I bet you can't.
I think Eric the Red or Leif (sp?) Erickson were the first European to discover the Americas. Discover is the correct term from the perspective of the Europeans. All this video does is present a more nuisance picture of what happened in history.
Guess who didn't get the day off from school for Columbus Day this year.
I wish we still got the day off lol
I never got the day off for Columbus Day.
Guess who wanted to stay home and do nothing because of the idiocracy of 1 man and his fleet.
Me at every year :p but as of my freshman year in college i did get caezar chavez day off.....not in highschool....just college....wonder why
I got the day off
If the holiday was supposed to celebrate western exploration keep in mind that he wouldn’t have sailed if not for Ottoman blockades on Europe. Columbus was brutal by historical standards, not for some religious reason; He set the standard for the black legend of systematic torture by Spain.
America has a lot of heroes, but it’s weird that Columbus needs to be one of them.
Ok Prager, only one thing: while Columbus WAS the first to bring knowledge of the America’s existence back to Western Europe, he was not the first to set foot on America. The Vikings did that.
Leif Erikson FTW
That might not be true either. I heard there were other travelers to America amongst the Muslims and Jews of Spain before Ferdinand and Isabella took Muslim Spain in 1492. Columbus was said to have used Muslim and Jewish sailors from Spain as well as using maps from them roughly outlining regions in America, although I think he still believed that it was India for some reason. This is further corroborated by the fact that some Native Americans had Muslim names, suggesting there were some converts in early America before 1492. Spain was conquered by Ferdinand, Isabella and the Spanish Conquistadors in 1492 from the Muslims and then 6 months later Columbus set sail for America.
@@cyclonemt but still Vikings were earlier in America even if we count your theory about Jewish and Arabian sailors. Firstly I dont believe your "story" as both Jews and Arabs didnt develop transoceanic ships during that period. Most of the Arab fleet consisted of small merchant and medium seized ships with very decent maneuverability in the shallow inland waters.
Mateen Spanish controlled America had Arabic sounding names because they had been conquered by the Arabs for a good 200 years or so, so of course they would have some influence on the Spanish
OneWeird Boi
That’s an interesting theory, and I see how it could be true. But how does one explain how they could even plan a tower the likes of which they were building and yet still be so primitive even after hundreds of years later? The Groups that settled and expanded on the main content/landmass (consisting of Europe, Asia and the middle east) all found metal, all built structures and large cities. But the closest the Americans came was building stone structures and obsidian weapons. How did none of that technical prowess come with the American settlers?
I mean, to be fair, he wasn't the first, and he didn't even land in America
Edit: and he wasn't even looking for America, and he had thought he landed in India. Some navigator
Duran McLemore it was Amerigo Vespucci(also italian) who’s discovered that this wasn’t japan or India and a new continent. This why the whole continent is name after him. We should celebrate him because Columbus was kinda crazy.
Duran McLemore, why did you start your sentence with "I mean"?
I think his "sin" was writing about how easy it would be to use the people of Haiti as slaves. I have not fact check that data but I believe it might be true.
There's even mote evidence now piling up that it was the norse and possbly even romans who discovered it first
Julia Tanno he not only wrote about it but he actually ended up taking over 1000 of them back to Spain to be sold as slaves. The Arawaks that were lucky enough to be left behind were tasked with finding non existent gold or have their hands cut off. He was so brutal they began committing mass suicide as they had no way to protect their children from the brutality
This made me go check what Google's doodle would be for today. Surprise Surprise. It's nothing. No mention of Columbus Day at all.
It’s stupid holiday anyway.
Y B It’s considered ‘regional’ because some states don’t observe it.
It's not a stupid holiday.
I went to Google.ca, and I saw... turkey... and veggies... and maple leaves...
...
(Today's Thanksgiving where I live. ;P)
@@joshua81685 It is lol.
Bruh the Native Americans actually treated their land with respect don't know what this guy is thinking.
@Eduardo Palladino *land*
Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria. The Mayflower is not one of Columbus's ships.
Stop yelling
Mayflower is not among them.
But they went
Christopher Columbus had three ships on his first voyage, the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria. Columbus sailed from Palos de la Frontera on 3 August, 1492. His flagship, the Santa Maria had 52 men aboard while his other two ships, the Nina and Pinta were each crewed by 18 men.
@@mavericks2048 no u
Nina, Pinta, Santa Ocasio-Cortez?
You win the internet.
Sir I do think you are right on the first two but the third was the Santa Maria.
@@jaredl7185
Its a joke from Steven Crowder.
Jared L
It's an inside joke from Louder With Crowder, don't feel bad for missing it :P
Santa Ocasio-Cortez isnt that the guy that conquered the aztecs
Let’s just saw every tribe,country,nation,creed,etc has done evil acts in history
GeneralSPatton Games
Exactly. No one would be left including the animals! People are lazy. It's just a lot easier to blame others for your short comings and treat them like they owe u something than it is to get yourselves together and do for yourselves. These are the times we live in. One big global "u owe me" blame game.
I’m not arguing that Columbus was a mass murderer. I’m arguing that Columbus didn’t discover jack shit, because people were already living in the Americas for thousands of years prior. To argue otherwise is to completely ignore thousands of years of Native American history, culture, and civilization as if it never happened. And if Columbus didn’t discover anything, why have a holiday devoted to him? Especially since Native Americans don’t have a holiday. Italian Americans can still have a holiday. Just call it Italian American Day or whatever
I can’t believe so many people are up in arms about Columbus Day. It’s the federal holiday people care least about. Unless Flag Day (June 14) is still a holiday
It’s a similar argument in Australia. Australia Day, January 26, is debated over and over as to its name and meaning. Sure, Aborigines got the rough end of the bargain, but compared to who might have settled Australia instead? They got off easy with the British, compared to the brutality of the Spanish, Belgians, Portuguese. Also, to suggest that Aborigines lived in harmony with each other is a crock. Hundreds of individual tribes inhabit the continent, each with their own dialect or language, each quite aggressive to the next. I grew up in the Outback; even in the 70s, when local tribes discovered the main police officer assigned to the area was a member of a neighboring tribe, he was run out of town. It’s not all peace and love, and history cannot be changed. Accept, and move on.
Humans got off easy with the Klingons, compared to the brutality of the Borgs or the Cardassians. Also, to suggest that Humans lived in harmony with each other is a crock. Hundreds of individual tribes inhabited the planet. Accept and move on.
Imagine if the Chinese had colonized Australia. At any point in history.
@@zerotolerance4u With the amount of chinese immigrating to australia and the silk road initiative of the chinese, I think they will soon haha
It's a "Similar" argument because it's being presented by the SAME pretentious elitists. "Thinkers of the World" deciding what's "Best" for everyone else. They're literally BORED. They need a hobby. Like biking, hiking or crafting so they can BUTT THE HELL OUT of OUR lives. What they All _really_ need is 6 weeks of HARD, PHYSICAL larbor. But they've become WAY TOO pretentious and High-minded for any such thing.
the Spanish were not that brutal, the dutch were worse
In Eastern Europe we learn that Columbus was a grand explorer that discovered the americas
In America he is known as the beginning for the first imperialism movement
Also in rest of europe
I mean most americans wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for him he created a society that actually lasted thus creating people chances to create a new life in a new land.
Well he didn’t
Except... He isn't great in any way, and he didn't discover America, nor did he think it was anything but the (East) Indies, not even till the day he died did he change his mind.
Columbus wanted to find a new route India, but ended up on American shores. Just saying...
He actually ended up in the Caribbean and killed 250,000 Taino people while he was at it.
@@Excedrine you didn't watch the video did you?
@@Excedrine they didn't bring that many bullets and if 3 little boats of guys could wipe out 250,000 people then they were to weak to be alive only the strong survive
It was named after Vespucci but he did not name it himself.
It's kind of relieving to see someone know the name Amerigo Vespucci to be honest.
@@KP-md3oe the result is i was born is a sweet place to live. Thanks Columbus
Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria. Had to defend columbus day at college today.
blue bird but which ship was Columbus on?
How did that go?
blue bird an Italian on Spanish ships oh the irony in all of this. 😂
blue bird more power to ya👍
@@Decidueye-2016 Santa maria
Niña, Pinta, Santa María
AJ Matt all prostitutes
@@zacharygordon5401 ????????
0:53 "first person to cross the Atlantic from the continent of Europe." That's where you might be wrong. There have been evidence that old Vikings had cross the Atlantic with a man named "Leif Erikson" around 1000 A.D. and had a short lived colony by the name of "Vinland".
While that is true, they had a shorter distance, and didn't do it within one trip, rather on several trips as they colonised up to Greenland
Well, to be fair, Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic more or less directly, whereas Leif Eriksen went by way of Iceland, Greenland and then connected with North America.
The Minoans and Egyptians traded with what would be called the Americas...
@@ryemccoy citation please
@@michaelweiske702 I read something about this recently they found artifacts but I don't remember where I read it lol.
We still have Columbus Day in Georgia and our kids are out of school.
I didn't know that was done. Here in Arkansas, students didn't get off for Columbus Day. Never happened when I was growing up.
I still have it in Texas.
I go to school on Columbus Day in Idaho.
Not Southern California ;(
Same in Iowa. I took time off work to teach him proper history. Not the liberal version.
The Vikings were the first from Europe to land in the America’s
@m stella no i think you need to pick up an encyclopedia because you are REEALLY misinformed.
Yes perhaps but Columbus was the first to let the rest of the world know about it.
The japanese did it before.
Natalie Muñoz well the Natives were the first to walk across into America
They were the first but the discovery doesn't matter because they didn't know where they were and abandoned it a year later. Columbus discovering it led to western Civilization
I know that it wasnt said but the animation depicts it, buffalo were certainly driven to near extinction due to "white men" of the 1800s. Just for the fur, leaving meat to rot on the prairie.
I came here to like the comments that said this. That part of the animation, coupled with what he was saying was so damn disingenuous.
I've only heard of Crowder before, but if this is what he does, I don't need to see more.
@@Epicurus33ad I probably agree with a lot of his views but a lot of his videos like this and the one on the crusades, anyone that knows just a little of the subject can poke holes in it
@@cowmaneater1243 So you're saying that the retaliatory crusades weren't a response to aggressive Muslim expansion and brutality?
That goes for pretty much any of his videos, my dude. They totally make sense - until you have a basic understanding of the actual topic at hand.
@@Cute___E exactly what they want, if you take everything they say as fact they can change history to support their rhetoric
Imagine what it would have been like if the Turks reached America first 🤮
That is an excellent topic!
Have any Turkish/Ottoman Empire Scholars written a book or paper on this subject?
Actually, the Turks are partly the reason for why Columbus crossed the Atlantic. They blocked Europe from a trading route to India, and so there was a need for a new route. The Portuguese found a new sea-route by sailing around the African continent, while Columbus thought Asia could be reaches by sailing towards the west, and you know the rest. If the Turks didn't block that route, there wouldn't have been a need for a new one, and it might have taken longer before America was discovered.
Cancer
It couldn't be possible, they dont have any exit to the atlantic. Tha question is if romans could discover america?
@@JNC01 - As a child I was taught that the reason Spain and Queen Isabella we're able to finance Columbus's expedition was because they had finally thrown the Moors out of Spain. I don't think your argument holds water.
But the settler's were immigrants bringing diversity to America how is that not to be celebrated
It's not about facts---It's about feelings.
In fourteen hundred and '92 Columbus sailed the ocean blue....Happy Columbus Day!
Charles Carter*** Fukkk kkkulumbas
@@hebrewbrown1900 Happy Columbus Day, "hebrew brown", aka descendant of West Africans! Stop culture appropriating real hebrews.
I was sitting in class today I'm in 11th grade and was wondering why has nobody mention Columbus Day nobody even realized it was Columbus day
The most profoundly revolutionary achievement of the United States of America was the subordination of society to moral law. The principle of man’s individual rights represented the extension of morality into the social system - as a limitation on the power of the state, as man’s protection against the brute force of the collective, as the subordination of might to right. The United States was the first moral society in history. All previous systems had regarded man as a sacrificial means to the ends of others, and society as an end in itself. The United States regarded man as an end in himself, and society as a means to the peaceful, orderly, voluntary co-existence of individuals. All previous systems had held that man’s life belongs to society, that society can dispose of him in any way it pleases, and that any freedom he enjoys is his only by favor, by the permission of society, which may be revoked at any time. The United States held that man’s life is his by right (which means: by moral principle and by his nature), that a right is the property of an individual, that society as such has no rights, and that the only moral purpose of a government is the protection of individual rights. ~ Ayn Rand
It's a shame the democrats are trying to change it into a social construct.
MY BOY CROWDER!!!
It’s crazy how people in 2019 are getting pissy over someone who lived five hundred years ago, just leave the past alone and live your life for the time you’re in.
Thomas Smith thank you
So you are also against Colombus day? After all the guy lived 500 years ago, you know.
Zacnie prawisz no I’m not against Columbus Day, my thing is the guy was alive 500 years ago which means it’s in the past and there’s no way in hell anybody can change it unless there’s a Delorean around.
If the Republican Party continues to fight as hard and as smart as Lindsey Graham has the last two weeks, we will grow our majority in the house and attain 60 seats in the Senate.
And what about the other 40 percent, how can they be represented?
As long as school is closed, idc what holiday it is.
In fourteen-hundred-ninety-two, Columbus gave a day off schoo
The name of the three ships are....sangria, pina colada, and the margarita. ;)
stephen H, you have justified why columbus day should be celebrated the cinco de mayo is
Pinta, Nina, Santa Maria.
Columbus Day is kind of like Stalin Day. Columbus really was that bad, not as bad as Stalin... but still bad. He was not a victim of his time. People back then were just as shocked as people today on his brutality. Sure, he was a great navigator, but he didn’t even discover the America first. Not even the mainland at that.
Lets not forget the native americans of Cahokia and the Mayans and Aztecs and their useage of human sacrafice to appease their gods. Not exactly peaceful or harmonious...
Yeah, the difference is that we don't have a special holiday commemorating the Aztec leaders as brave heroes. Let's at least be consistent: it would be disgusting to celebrate those Aztec priests, and it's disgusting today to celebrate Columbus.
This would be a valid point if there was a widespread "Montezuma II Day" and some natives were peaceful and this doesn't change the fact that Columbus was a murderer, come back next time and try again.
You almost made a point Heretical Hershey, now have Montezuma discover the artic or Antartica even if by mistake then you're getting some where.
Humanity has come along way over the centuries something many on those left of center forget that or choose to ignore. Times were brutal and harsh. History is full of conquers, betrayals, treachery, and atrocities from various different cultures, a good number that weren't European. (Do you want mean to leave pages and pages detailing them?) People have a rose coloured view of history or parts of it if they are even aware of it all. BTW See Ninja Hombrepalito comment as well.
I'm fine with pointing out that certain historical figures were only human and not saint like. But that's not impression I get from your comment was aiming for.
@@lastcharmed88 I find it hilarious how flippant you all are about massacres and genocides, but if someone tries to take away Columbus Day then for some reason thats what gets you heated. The rest of this is some bizarre historical Tu Quoque and its not worth either of our time.
@Heretical Hershey Now I know you're being intellectually dishonest since you are aware Columbus wasn't a Conquistador as evidenced by your response to Ninja Hombrepalito which I'll quote below. Important since we are *not* debating about Conquistador Day. Also the -genocide- mass deaths that you try to attribute to Columbus were the result of diseases that Europeans inadvertently brought with them.
BTW You also don't seem concerned by the atrocities the native peoples of the early Americas wrought on the other or weaker tribes before and during Columbus' time. Slavery, human sacrifice, cannibalism, torture and war. Given how much you protest murder and atrocities it would be hypocritical to give those a pass.
So Columbus Day is anti flat Earth by its nature. Given the surge in flat Earthers and anti vaxxers any holiday that takes either of them down a peg is fine by me. His voyage was confirmation of the then growing belief that the Earth is round.
Most importantly I'm not pro historical revisionists. I prefer to be aware of humanities mistakes. For if we try to rewrite it, even if to suit an agenda, we still set the truth to be forgotten. Forget our mistakes, and by extension, the reasons for them would leave ourselves vulnerable to repeat them.
Attempts to tear down Columbus Day is hardly an isolated incident. Are you going to pretend that it is?
I haven't forgotten that trying to destroy certain historical identities was a tactic employed in the Mao's cultural revolution or by Stalin or even by Germany's National Socialists in 1933 burning books of philosophers or history that stated views the National Socialists found to be problematic.
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Ninja Hombrepalito: ...the Europeans (the Spanish and Portuguese more accurately) came to conquer, hence, Conquistadors... And Christopher Columbus was not part of the Conquistadors. Get your facts straight!
You : How do I like this comment 161 times?
BTW, Columbus was not the First europeaer to cross the atlantic, the First Ones were actually the Vikings.
Columbus wasnt the first, but he was the first to write it down
But the vikings did not create a civilization. Columbus created a civilization that actually lasted and this gave the european people a chance to create a new life in the americas.
@@bobby9147 sayinf that columbus created civilasition is wrong columbus found the americans and managed to return with the information to spain and the shelters came throught north and south america and created civilizations along with the already existing ones
@@bobby9147 well , there was way more with the vikings in the americas than we all might think.
They actually had settlements all over the coast of Labrador peninsula and modern day Quebec , the larget being called Vinalnd. They have traded with native americans and even brought a native american woman to Iceland , her genes are still preset in the dna of some Icelandic sitizens.
Unfortunately , the entire thing has kinda fallen apart and the natives have never seen vikings again. Just imagine how different the world would be if it all had carried on - my god.
@@bobby9147 *laughing intensely* Well he did jump start the god awful nightmare that was the spanish colonies which later became independent nations, but really that's it and only re-affirms what an awful person he was. The U.S. and Canada were founded by the British and French who came on their own accord
Crowder on PragerU? This is a dream come true.
This isn't the only video he did. He did one a year ago about "democratic" socialism
@@bennygoodmanisgod Ooooh thanks!
It’s a good day for echo chambers
Pretty much.
1. Self critique is not self hatred
2. Columbus wasn’t even the first to the New World
3. The Spanish were not necessarily more advanced than native Americans. The Spanish never bathed
4. Native Americans are dead because of European imperialism. Is it wrong to disagree with celebration of that?
IN 1492 COLUMBUS SAILED THE OCEAN BLUE WITH THE NIÑA, THE PINTA, AND THE SANTA MARÍA
Long after the portuguese discovered America by João Vaz Corte-Real in 1473.
Congratulations you did something any middle schooler can do.
Portuguese used the charts made by Vikings who beat them all by centuries. The king of Portugal got the charts as part of a marriage agreement with Scandinavians
LadyBlaidd the study of the Atlantic North water currents, were all done by the Sagres Naval school opened around 1415, and it took decades to the portuguese to be able to arrive in America in 1473. So no help from the Vikings there. Columbus only used what he learned in the portuguese Sagres naval school after studying there from 1480 to 1490
The settlers were simply the strongest tribe among many warring tribes~
bigraviolees- The stupid is STRONG in you.
@@bigraviolees Whoa check out the internuts on this guy!!
bigraviolees watch out! We got a badass over here!
Native Americans brutally slaughtered each other, and the many, many European colonies who were forced to traverse the Atlantic on behalf of some month back home. They were called SAVAGES by people, who at the time would have been considered "savage" by today's standards, even by Romean standards and they forced slaves to reenact battles to the death.
Native Americans lost, pure and simple and they fought hard, so props, but they still lost.
Oh and by the way, before any libtards bring it up, "Indian giver" is a term to outline the Indians inability to adhere or understand basic social contracts that allow society to function and agreements to be upheld. In other words, Europeans never shat on agreements they entered into with the Indians, all the "shit" came from the Indians.
Besides, look at what the Europeans brought, had it not been for European conquest, America would be indistinguishable from the uncontacted tribes of central and south America.
And, yes, I am Native American of the Apache Nation.
Durethia maybe your tribe sucked at keeping agreements, but everyone of the treaties of my tribe were broken by the US gov or settlers that the gov protected later to take more land. And none of this fought hard but lost stuff....otherwise that’s like if someone jumps you , beats you and takes your paycheck money and your not gonna say that’s wrong someone help me fix this injustice(usually the police). Or are you gonna say well I fought hard but be beat me....hope he enjoys my money..oops I mean his money, wouldn’t want to make him feel bad.
So you get free money. No wonder your glad Europeans took your land.
None of that makes want we did right and you know it.
Stanley Chaney no Natives
Gets free money. The USA forced Natives by gunpoint to agree to some horrible one sided agreements. Every part of the agreement that Natives benefit from was first approved by the guy holding the gun to the Native’s head. The agreement is a contract between two government in which one gov took all the land and resources of the other and then said we will PAY you this, because we OWE you this for all the stuff we are taking. You are crying like if your coworker sold his house to your boss and your boss has been paying him over the years because they made a deal and you don’t get any “free money” from the boss.
@White Vril, true but we shouldn't be celebrating the worst of human nature either.
Native Americans actually kept the bison population very stable prior to the 19th century. What caused their near extinction was the increase in farmland, therefore destroying the natural bison habitat, and also the hunting practices of non-natives.
La Pinta, La Niña and La Santa Maria...grade 1 education in El Salvador....
I knew I was forgetting one! I got 2 out of 3 lol
In latino places it is taught, not so much in the USA.
Hmm, I think google is at play here...
And there were more but the others shipwrecked in the way.
Or I might be mixing it with Pedro Alvarez Cabral
Also it's "Hernán Cortés" not "Hernando"
Happy Columbus Day!
Happy Anti-FA lockup day!
+Der P
i keep having a fantasy of shooting several antifa fuk ups with my AK...
Best thing about Antifa? They bring signs to a gun fight.
In fourteen hundred and ninety two, columbus got us a day off school. We need to fight to save columbus day.
should we do the same thing with 9/11?
jhon basil yes
Just change the name of Labor Day to Patriot Day and move it to 11 September.
Lukas Sebranek I don’t get Columbus Day off lmao
Glass of milk, neither do I. It was just a joke.
Andrew Jackson and the trail of tears was the best example of genocide by America
Why y’all uploading at 2:03 am
@bANoMia It's 5:29 on the East Coast. Still not a reasonable hour. Then again, I'm not very reasonable either.
@@brettc2727 You fail to realize that PragerU is AMERICAN lol
11.29 AM here
Because SLEEP IS FOR THE WEAK
bANoMia
It was 5 AM for me in Texas
Bruh I'm Cherokee and I got nothing against Columbus Day
All he did was set up trade..
Conquistadors from Spain were the murdering conquerors.. Columbus was not a conqueror.
@@TheRomanTribune just a shit navigator
@@notsoverysmartperson4743 \ I mean he didn't have a GPS or an actual working map. Compared to today's generation he would be able to travel significantly better than the vast majority. So what are we comparing here? Can you imagine traveling to the unknown with a crappy boat, no type of medications, no escape plans or anything? They have no lifeboats or any easy source of food or water. Even basic hygienic items were non-existent. Fck that
The fact that he cited Wounded Knee is hilarious. The moment people start defending themselves I guess it becomes a “battle”. Even though Wounded Knee was the first time the US military used machine guns, using the Native Americans as literally target practice.
Yeah, it's gross to see a "pro-gun" conservative literally defending state violence and gun seizures when it's done against native Americans.
@@greenbrickbox3392 yup and they claim that their pro life 🙄
Source? (Not asking antagonistically, I genuinely want to know where you got the information so I can look into it for myself and hopefully learn more.)
@@bekkfxst maybe late but I recommend "Knowing Better"s Video about native Americans!
It was a battle tho...a one sided massacre, but definitely not a genocide.
But what about Columbus overseeing *active enslavement* of a considerable chunk of the indigenous population?
I'm a big fan of crowder, Prager, and most of the other intellectual dark Web guys, I'm also an Indian. It's true we didn't practice true environmental conservation, and we LOVE WAR, and a little slavery. (I'm pretty sure my grandparents ate people) BUT there's some responsibility to be merciful to the people you annilate, and my only grevience is the land grabs WHICH WHERE NOT COLUMBUS' FAULT (the massicures, and atrocities where choices made by fat old generals)
Come on, you guys were conquered and survived as race against the odds. Some thanks to white people that DID take a responsibility of the their conquest and you and millions of your race are living among us. At least you ended up in USA, it would suck much more if it was Russia or China.
I see what your saying, and yes a lot of whites were not bad at all, but that doesn't make up for the wrongs the ones in power did commit. I'm not saying I'm angry, and I'm not saying that bad things are still happening. ease of the government, all I'm saying is their was some advantage taken and I'm remorseful of how history happened.
Agreed. btw i wouldnt call prager or crowder IDW, theyre just kinda internet conservatives.
Nice hearing this from a Native American. Leftists like to equate race with culture a lot, so they understand that when conservatives say Indians weren't the most civilized group of people around, they aren't saying Native American people are inherently inferior. The actions of your ancestors have no bearing when you decide to join the American way of life, and from the sounds of it, you are more of a true American than even most white people.
Or...they just have different opinions.
Europeans (Romans) had magnificent buildings and road networks that exist to this day. Native Americans were still in the stone age 1800 years later. If it weren't for European medicine, they'd be still be dying at a very young age from simple infections and colds, and if it weren't for European law, they'd still be slaughtering each other as they were doing all along. I had a fiancee who was Cherokee, the elders were telling me (I'm European) that they were more benefited than hurt overall.
Sure until they were uprooted and dumped into reservation.
I have talked about that with them - I was living in the Cherokee Nation after all (near Tahlequah). Sure, mistakes were made (mostly by the Democrats, who violated the agreements), but given the shift in military power balance after all developments, the Cherokee (and others) were in a vastly inferior position vs. other tribes. May I remind you also that only the strongest tribes (Comanche) had actual roots (more defined borders) - most tribes were changing places depending on where the food went or where they'd be safer. Roots are not eternal you know: th-cam.com/video/Iha3OS8ShYs/w-d-xo.html
😅😅😅😅 laughable
Virgin columbus vs chad Leif Erikson
Damn this conservative painted colonizers like if they were Mr. ROGERS LOL
Ok, gotcha on this one. Colombus was NOT the first European to cross the Atlantic, and he DID have maps. There is evidence that the Knights Templar had been sailing the Atlantic to mine silver in South America in the two centuries prior to Columbus' 1492 voyage. He was married into a Templar family, and his ships had the Templar cross on the sails.
Citation needed*
LukeDaDuke, refer to "The Warriors and the Bankers", a history of the Knights Templar from 1307 to the present, by Alan Butler and Stephen Dafoe. See pp 47-51.
Niña
Pinta
Santa Maria
He also got to Puerto Rico.
Carribean Wolf in Puerto Rico, they teach it was the first piece of land he arrived at.
Honestly I only knew the Santa Maria
Happy Vikings Day. I only celebrate the TRUE discoverers of America.
Discovery requires sharing the knowledge with the greater world. Discover FOR EUROPE. If you want to claim "just discovery" then the natives discovered it first.
Happy Indigenous People’s Day. I’m a history teacher and I know that gets your blood boiling. I will say that everything he said is true. I try to teach history through perspective. Native Americans look at this history differently than Europeans. It is a hard truth that Native Americans were nearly made extinct because of the diseases brought by the Europeans. Yes, the Native Americans lost. That is history. For so long history of the USA was only taught through one point of view; the victors. It’s important to see how all participants view these events because these perspectives tend to collide into adjacent and future events. This country has an extremely complicated history that should be taught.
I dont believe youre a history teacher. Yes, US history and history in general is complicated, but cmon Mr. Jones. SURELY you know about the Trail of Tears. Thats literal ethnic cleansing, considering how we uprooted entire tribes and moved them so we could possess their lands. SURELY you know about how the US used Manifest Destiny to justify aggression toward and expansion into their territory. SURELY you know about how often we'd kill or forcibly relocate tribes that lived on land that happened to be valuable. SURELY you know about the Massacre of Sand Creek, wherein about 150 native Americans, mostly women and children, were killed by US soldiers as they were literally just chilling. Oh but 25 soldiers died, so i guess that was a battle and not just people fighting back and trying not to die.
@@unovasfinest2623 literally hundreds of massacres were perpetrated by native Americans against colonists, if you hat this country so much, go away you have these “evil colonists” to thank for your easy life
@@nostradamus2231
Yes. There were many massacres done by the natives against the colonists. At some points there was outright attempts to purge colonists from entire areas, which is genocide and wrong. However, it is important to remember that colonists LITERALLY squat on their land by definition and posed an existential threat by their desire to expand constantly. And are you seriously gonna try and tell me that massacres were done in equal parts by natives and European settlers? You know how the Spanish took half the Western Hemisphere in like 150 years? By rolling over the weaker native tribes, enslaving them, playing the larger nations against eachother to weaken them, and then rolling them over and enslaving them. Shit like this was helped along by the purposeful spread of Old World diseases.
And then look at the United States in the 19th century. You gonna tell me it was a fair give and take? Just warfare?
And for the record i dont hate the country, and you dont know my life. So i dunno where youre getting these strawmen from
@@unovasfinest2623 If you hate America so much then leave I'll buy you a ticket out
@@brycemcdonald846
I never said i hate America. I rather like it. What i do hate is when people push historical revisionism to strengthen their propaganda and further their political agenda, which is what PragerU does. They're videos are all debunked nonsense and not even consistent with eachother. What i do hate is when people ignore the flaws of America in its past and present. And what i hate most is when people dont try to fix existing problems. I want to IMPROVE America and make it really live up to its ideals of liberty and justice for all people.
Honestly, I don't think I ever observed Columbus Day. It always seemed more of a bank holiday. There does seem to be some evidence that a few Viking and Asian sailors discovered the Americas before Columbus. However, I can understand why Italian Americans would want to honor him. In the US, we don't celebrate St Patrick's Day the way we should, but more as a celebration of the Irish Culture and History. Perhaps Columbus Day could morph into a celebration of famous Italians and their culture? It would recognize the accomplishments of Columbus, Michelangelo, & Da Vinci to name a few. It would be more like Octoberfest. Of course this is only my personal opinion on the matter.
Thanks you for the comedy. You all are among the most hilarious examples of American "intelligence" out there. Keep the jokes coming.
mhm
I feel like such videos are made intentionally to misinform the public.
Ah yes, the ones who cant understand simple sense are mocking themselves without knowing
@@steveovicX That's the whole point of PragerU
Happy Columbus day!! In Spain it used to be called "Día de La Hispanidad". Now: "Spain's national's day"
So Spain financed, commissioned the voyage but Columbus was Italian, is that it?
Columbus was Spanish I think. The Portugese govt. thought it was stupid to sail around the ocean to get to India for spices, so he asked the Spanish and they let him do it instead. He didn't find India, and instead found the Americas.
no he was Italian and was Spaniards that gave him the money for the voyage to see if the trade routes could be better implemented
Happy ILF (Indigenous and Leif Erikson) day. All Credit goes to Indigenous people and the Vikings including Bjarni Herjolfsson and Leif Erikson.
@@blacklungraiders2819 you are right, here he's also know as "Cristoforo Colombo"
I'm sorry the bold actions of pivotal historical figures offend your delicate modern sensibilities.
Actually, I'm not.
I am sorry that the truth (genocide on Indians) is offending you to the point that you suck and swallow historic revisionism written by boomer neocons.
Actually, no one cares boomer. Literally nobody asked you if you're sorry or not.
bOoMeR.
Really rolling out the intellectual firepower.
@@zacnieprawisz9171
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@@reharl4953
Sorry, but using period doesn't make you sound intelectual at all neither you 20 year old boomer ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
plus you know that what you just wrote was literally a hate comment? Pathetic¨