• JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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    7 days ago

    History is written by the winners my man.

    There’s no right or wrong side of history until history has been written. .

    Christopher Columbus continues to be idolized by the Italian-American community. Not as much as he used to…but for that entire time, he was the “right” side of history. It took half a millenia for even a sizeable group of people to say “hey wait a minute…”.

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      Christopher Columbus got arrested though, he was already on the wrong side of history in his own time.