{"id":2060957,"date":"2023-10-09T17:58:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T21:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-columbus-was-a-great-man-and-deserves-to-be-celebrated\/"},"modified":"2023-10-09T18:04:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T22:04:24","slug":"why-columbus-was-a-great-man-and-deserves-to-be-celebrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-columbus-was-a-great-man-and-deserves-to-be-celebrated\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbus: A Great Man Worthy of Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhy-columbus-was-a-great-man-and-deserves-to-be-celebrated%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2060957&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Why Columbus Day Deserves to be Celebrated<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is Columbus \u2064Day. Longtime fans of my show will know that \u200cit is a tradition on Columbus Day to talk\u200c about the holiday and\u2063 why it \u200bdeserves to be celebrated, despite what the \u200bleftist crybabies\u200c and historical revisionists might\u2064 say. I will continue\u200c with this tradition \u200cfor as long as the holiday and the man it commemorates remain \u2064under attack, \u200cwhich means that I will continue indefinitely.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, \u2062if\u200c you hear Columbus\u200c acknowledged \u2062at all today in the media or by any political or cultural figure of\u200b note,\u2064 it will almost certainly be a condemnation.\u200b They will tell us,\u200d as\u200b they \u2064have been telling us for many years, that Columbus was\u2064 a genocidal maniac whose arrival led to \u2064the alleged\u200b genocide of so-called \u201cnative Americans\u201d or \u201cindigenous people.\u201d \u2064In \u2062the same breath, without a hint of irony, they will also decry what they describe as overly simplistic \u2062portrayals of Columbus and his \u2063voyages \u2014 hoping you don\u2019t\u2063 notice how no portrayal of Columbus is as\u200c absurdly \u200band cartoonishly simplistic as \u2064the one you get \u2064from these very same people. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As mentioned, I have made the\u200c case\u2063 many times for why Columbus deserves to\u2063 be celebrated, deserves to have his\u2063 federal holiday, and his statues, and his cities named \u2064after him. The \u2064case is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-passes-bill-mandating-states-recognize-gay-marriage\/\" title=\"House Passes Bill Mandating States Recognize Gay Marriage\">pretty straight forward<\/a>. Christopher Columbus\u2063 was \u200da very great man, and one of the most consequential figures to ever live on planet Earth. He\u2064 quite easily had more of an impact\u200b than every single one of his modern critics combined \u2014 times a \u2062thousand. These are the people we \u2063give holidays \u200bto, or used to. The people who shaped the world. And \u2063say \u2063whatever else you want about\u2063 Columbus, he did more \u2064than almost\u2062 any\u200b other single person to shape the world we live in today. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3>WATCH: The\u2064 Matt Walsh Show<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s \u200boften said \u2014 by idiots who claimed to be \u2063intellectually\u200b nuanced \u2014 that if Columbus did achieve this world-shaping feat, he\u2063 did \u200dit \u201caccidentally.\u201d Even \u2064if that\u2019s true, it wouldn\u2019t change his significance \u200cor \u200cthe significance of what he accomplished. But \u200cit\u2019s not true. He may have been looking for the East Indies \u2014 looking,\u200c in other words,\u2063 for land he knew existed rather than\u2062 looking for land he didn\u2019t\u2062 know existed, so could not have been looking for by definition \u2014 but\u200b there was nothing accidental about his voyage. He didn\u2019t trip and fall and drift across the Atlantic. Rather, he led \u2063a small fleet \u200cof ships over an unknown \u2062ocean, without the use of any modern navigational equipment.\u2064 Without even a map to guide\u200b the way.\u200d You would\u2063 think that \u200dthis would be impressive to modern people who can\u2019t \u200bmanage to drive to the\u200b Starbucks three blocks away without the assistance of\u2064 satellite\u200c navigation. But that \u2064would require \u2062modern people to have humility and perspective, both of which are in short supply.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over the course of\u2063 his four voyages, Columbus discovered many Caribbean islands \u2062and explored\u200c the coasts of \u200bCentral and South America. The full scope \u2064of what he had\u200d discovered \u2064would not be fully\u200c understood until after he died, but the fact remains that\u2063 Columbus brought western civilization \u200cacross a vast and uncharted and dangerous sea, and into a previously unexplored \u2064and unknown\u200d hemisphere \u2064of the \u200cglobe. He forever changed the world, and he changed it in a way and to a degree \u200dmatched by very few other\u200d people who have ever lived on \u200bthe\u200d planet \u2014 and aside from Jesus Christ, exceeded by perhaps no one. He did this\u2064 through his courage and daring and\u2064 brilliance and vision. All things worth admiring and all virtues that Columbus possessed in far greater quantity than any of\u2063 his smarmy,\u200b petty, non-contributing critics. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Was Columbus\u200d also a\u200d deeply flawed man? Could\u200c he be brutal \u200dand unjust? Yes. Welcome\u2064 to almost any great man who has ever\u200b lived. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sure, Columbus captured slaves. He executed both\u200c Spaniards\u2064 and Indians under his\u200b rule. He took gold. He was by all accounts a\u2063 bad\u200c governor. This\u200b was a common flaw of explorers of the era. Many of them\u200c were brilliant on their ships but incompetent or downright horrible on solid ground. Magellan made it three-quarters of the way around the world \u200cbefore getting himself killed in a needless conflict with a tribe in the\u200b Philippines. A certain type of \u2062man was needed to navigate a \u2063fleet of ships across uncharted waters. A different kind of man was \u2062needed to\u200b manage settlements. Unfortunately, the latter type \u200dhad\u2063 no way\u2062 of getting to the settlement except by hitching a ride\u200d with \u2063the former. And the former \u200bwasn\u2019t\u2062 often \u200dwilling to cede\u200c control of the land he had just gone through all the trouble of discovering, a somewhat understandable reluctance, I think.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There is nothing wrong with acknowledging the flaws of men like Christopher Columbus. \u2064Nobody is suggesting that\u2062 we should\u200c honor \u200bthem \u2064as perfect people or \u200cworship them as gods. The point\u2064 of the statues, the \u2063monuments, and the holidays is \u200cto remember and celebrate the indispensable role they played\u2062 in establishing the civilization in which we all now\u200d live \u2014\u2062 a civilization that just so happens to be the freest \u200band most prosperous in the history \u200cof the world. Columbus, through his \u2064navigational brilliance, boldness, courage, \u200cvision,\u2062 and determination, is one of the men we have to \u200dthank for that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some people might claim that western civilization is nothing to be thankful for at all. I can\u2019t help but notice, though, that those people still choose to live \u2062here, enjoying the comforts and freedoms given to \u2063them by the very\u2063 men whose monuments they deface and holidays\u2064 they cancel. They \u200dclaim this is \u201cstolen land,\u201d yet they remain on it, basking\u200d in its luxuries. The\u2064 fact is that they would much prefer to \u200dlive in the \u201ccolonized\u201d version of this land than the alternative. Most \u2064Indian tribes were about five to six\u2063 thousand years behind the \u200cmore advanced civilizations on the other \u2064side of the ocean. If left to their own devices, by now they probably still wouldn\u2019t \u200bhave\u200b even\u200b invented the wheel. That is not a world that any supposed opponent of \u201ccolonization\u201d would want to\u200c live in, no matter what they say.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>The Replacement of Columbus Day<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Which brings us to \u200dthe day that has \u2064come to replace Columbus Day. Now you will hear most\u200c people in the \u2064mainstream\u2062 talk about \u201cIndigenous Peoples\u201d day. Joe Biden recognized \u201cIndigenous Peoples Day\u201d in a presidential proclamation for the \u2062first time\u2064 two years ago. In\u2062 many \u200bcorners \u2063of American society, it has entirely supplanted Columbus Day. But Indigenous Peoples Day is a \u2064total farce, a disgrace,\u200c and a joke, for several reasons. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">First, it isn\u2019t a real holiday,\u200c it\u2019s a \u200cpolitical statement. \u2064A protest. \u2064A thing\u2064 invented specifically to overshadow Columbus Day. Leftists don\u2019t understand why this is a problem because\u200c everything they do is reactive in this way. Their whole cultural agenda is designed to supplant, destroy,\u200b dismantle\u200c the old traditions and values. They have no ideas of their own. Nothing new or interesting to say. They \u200cjust have a bunch \u200cof things they don\u2019t like and want to destroy for reasons they can barely articulate. Columbus Day celebrates one of\u200b the greatest\u2064 historical figures to ever \u200blive. Indigenous People\u2019s Day\u200c is \u200ca\u2063 political \u200btactic meant to undermine\u2063 that same historical figure. So, if you\u2063 want a real holiday in\u200b order to celebrate \u201cIndigenous people,\u201d\u2064 then get your own day. Try for once to come up with one idea that isn\u2019t designed to simply be\u200d the opposite of someone else\u2019s idea. Think for yourself for a change, \u2063you\u200d halfwit plagiarists. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Second, the underlying premise \u200bof the day is \u200dfalse. This is supposedly a day to acknowledge the people whose land \u200bwas stolen by European\u200d settlers, but the whole \u201cstolen land\u201d thing is preposterous. There were <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Native-American\/Native-American-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">maybe as low<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  as one or two \u200cmillion Indians living on the entire North American continent by the 15th century. At most, there \u200dwere 15 or\u2064 20 million. The point is that the vast, vast \u200cmajority of the land\u200b was unoccupied; North America\u2064 was mostly an untamed, unexplored, uninhabited wilderness. The smattering of\u200b tribes spread out across 9 million square\u200c miles did\u2062 not own the whole \u200cthing. People these days talk as\u200c if the Europeans had no\u2064 right to come here in the first place (an interesting assertion from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-kevin-mccarthy-pledges-as-speaker-he-will-not-consider-amnesty-or-gun-control-legislation\/\" title=\"Exclusive \u2014 Kevin McCarthy Pledges as Speaker He Will Not Consider Amnesty or Gun Control Legislation\">open borders advocates<\/a>), but that is obviously absurd on its face. The tide of civilizational expansion and progress was not \u200dgoing \u2062to \u2064be\u2063 held back forever. And the idea that a rag tag\u200b collection of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-columbus-was-a-great-man-and-deserves-to-be-celebrated\/\" title=\"Columbus: A Great Man Worthy of Celebration\">warring \u2063stone age tribes<\/a> somehow laid eternal claim to this entire hemisphere is just insane. The\u2064 land was destined to be conquered by more civilized and advanced people, and it was, and thank God it was. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Third, the whole concept of \u201cindigenous \u2064people\u201d is arbitrary, \u2062if not totally nonsensical. What \u200bmakes a person \u201cindigenous\u201d exactly? How long does their lineage have to be present\u200c here? If I can trace my family back \u2062100 years, is \u2063that not good \u2064enough? 200 years? 300 years? The absurd reality is that if you are a white person\u200c living in the United States of America, and \u200byour ancestors arrived here on the \u2062Mayflower 400 \u2064years ago, you still somehow do not count as either \u200dnative\u2063 or indigenous. This is \u200cnot your\u200b native \u2063land, even\u200d after four centuries. Then where exactly is your native land? If you are not indigenous \u200bto this place, the place where you were born, and your\u2062 parents were born, and\u2063 your grandparents,\u2062 and your grandparents grandparents, then\u200c where are you \u2063indigenous? The answer is \u200bnowhere.\u200b The cultural powers that be want you to \u2062consider yourself ancestrally homeless. You belong nowhere. You are a usurper and an invader no matter where you go. You have no native home, no matter how \u200clong your family has\u2062 lived here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nobody applies\u2064 this standard to the so-called \u201cindigenous people.\u201d None of them \u201coriginated\u201d here. They all descend from\u2062 people who came\u200d here at some point in the past and fought over the land and killed each other to claim whatever\u2064 slice of it they possessed before the white settlers \u200carrived. Those settlers fought for it too, and won. They built a life for themselves\u200c through \u2062work and toil and hardship and blood. Yet we are\u2064 supposed\u200c to live in a state of perpetual shame over this history. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Well, I refuse to play that game. This is my \u200dhome. I am \u200bnative to this country. I originate \u2064here. I belong here. I \u200dam proud of \u200cour history. I am proud\u200d of the men who built our civilization. I celebrate those men. I will\u200d continue to celebrate them. Were they colonizers? Sure \u2063they were, and I\u200d celebrate that\u2063 too. They colonized. Meaning they forged into an unknown wilderness and built a life for themselves, expanding western civilization in the process. It was a virtuous act. And through\u2063 it, they\u200c earned the right to call this place home, \u2064and for all of their descendants\u200d through the ages to do the same.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That is why they \u200bget the\u200c holidays, they earned them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CLICK HERE TO\u2064 GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/span><\/a>  <\/p>\n<h2> What were some of \u200cthe positive contributions and historical significance of Columbus&#8217;\u200b achievements in regards to exploration and cultural exchange\u200d between\u2063 the Old World and the New World?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Lead and govern a colony. Columbus may not have been \u2063the best governor, but that doesn&#8217;t diminish his incredible \u2064accomplishments as an explorer and navigator. His flaws were certainly significant, \u2063but they do not negate his contributions to history and the world.<\/p>\n<p>Critics often focus solely\u2064 on\u2064 Columbus&#8217; negative \u2064actions and overlook the context of the time and the\u200b prevailing attitudes of society. Slavery was unfortunately a \u200bwidespread practice\u2064 during the Age of Exploration, and many explorers and conquerors\u200c engaged in such activities. \u200cColumbus\u2063 cannot be singled out as the only offender in this regard.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, it is important to remember that Columbus&#8217; voyages marked \u2064the beginning of\u2062 an era of exploration and discovery\u200c that had a profound \u2064impact on the world. His discovery of the Americas opened up new opportunities for trade, colonization, and cultural exchange between the Old World and the New World. This exchange, despite its complexities and consequences,\u200d brought about significant advancements in areas such as science, technology, agriculture, and medicine. It led to the exchange of ideas and\u200d knowledge that shaped the\u2062 world we live in today.<\/p>\n<p>Columbus&#8217; voyages also sparked further exploration and colonization efforts,\u200d ultimately leading to the establishment of colonies and the spread of European influence throughout the Americas. \u2063While the consequences of these endeavors were not always positive for indigenous \u2062populations, it cannot be\u200c denied that \u200bthey had a lasting impact on the shape of modern societies.<\/p>\n<p>Columbus Day serves \u200das a reminder of the courage, determination, and vision of a \u2062man who embarked on a perilous journey into the unknown. It commemorates the pivotal moment in history when the Old World and the \u200cNew World first made contact, forever altering the course of human civilization. Columbus\u2063 Day \u200dis a celebration of exploration, discovery, and the human spirit&#8217;s unyielding quest for knowledge and adventure.<\/p>\n<p>While it is important to acknowledge the\u200d darker aspects of Columbus&#8217; actions and the consequences of European colonization, it is also\u2062 crucial\u200d to recognize the positive contributions and the historical significance \u2064of his achievements. We\u200d should not succumb \u2063to the revisionist tendencies\u200b of dismissing and erasing history but\u2064 rather strive to understand our past in all its complexity and learn\u2064 from its lessons.<\/p>\n<p>Columbus Day provides an opportunity to\u2062 engage \u2064in meaningful conversations \u2062and reflections on the legacy\u200d of Columbus and the larger historical context in which he operated. It encourages us to critically examine the impact of colonialism and the ongoing struggles for justice and \u2064equality faced by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/environmental-groups-cheer-keystone-shutdown-now-demand-biden-shut-down-all-pipelines\/\" title=\"Environmental Groups Cheer Keystone Shutdown, Now Demand Biden Shut Down All Pipelines\">indigenous peoples<\/a>. It challenges us to confront the\u2064 complexities of history, rather than shy away from \u2064them.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, Columbus Day deserves to be celebrated because it commemorates \u200da\u2062 pivotal moment in history and recognizes the achievements, however flawed, of an individual who shaped the world we live in today. It serves as a reminder\u200b that our history, like our world, is complex\u200c and multi-faceted, and that a \u2063nuanced understanding of the past is necessary for a\u200d more enlightened future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Columbus Day, a tradition on my show to discuss why it deserves celebration, despite leftist critics. 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