Christopher Columbus didn't commit genocide. Within 200 years of Columbus's arrival, 95% of the 20M Native Americans died... from disease. Smallpox, flu, tuberculosis, malaria, plague, measles, cholera. Tragic, definitely. But mass murder by Columbus? Not even close.
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It is also one of the easiest things to look up. It is not like his journals are some secret historians are hiding.
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