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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey
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The Oatmeal missed the point. Columbus was sent by European power, the same power that writes history, therefore the resident savages, and visiting Vikings, Asians, Africans and Polynesians don't count.
And Bartolome? "He gave up his land, freed his slaves, became a priest, and spent the rest of his life fighting the brutal colonization of the New World." What a dumb move, what European Monarch, you know, the ones with power, is going to listen to a pauper priest? I doubt the Vatican was much interested either.
As a wealthy plantation owner he might have been able put a bug in the ear of some players at court, at least brought up the subject with the "loyal opposition", but of course their life expectancy was almost as short as the Indians.