That Oatmeal cartoon going around...

"Jagvar" (Jagvar)
10/14/2013 at 16:35 • Filed to: None

...was apparently !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! from an article that the Huffington Post ran back in 2010. Right down to the part lauding Bartolome de las Casas. I don't know; maybe it's all true, and maybe it's bunk. But Columbus and other so-called explorers have been coming under attack for years now. Don't get me started on Hernán Cortés.

DISCUSSION (10)

For Sweden > Jagvar
10/14/2013 at 16:36

I suppose Columbus Day could become Native American Day, but that's crazy talk.

Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast. > For Sweden
10/14/2013 at 16:38

That's kinda-sorta what Thanksgiving is, right? They could have wiped out the Pilgrams but chose not to.

Jagvar > For Sweden
10/14/2013 at 16:39

And now I'm reminded of the Simpsons episode that featured a Native American casino manager named "Crazy Talk."

HammerheadFistpunch > Jagvar
10/14/2013 at 16:40

an internet cartoonist cribbing opinions from the internet? Now I have seen everything.

Seriously though, funny man who is starting to produce less funny and more controversial stuff all the time.

PowderHound > Jagvar
10/14/2013 at 16:41

I thought it was a known thing that Columbus was not exactly someone to be praising.

EL_ULY > Jagvar
10/14/2013 at 16:43

my fiance lives like 3 minutes from El Arbol de la Noche Triste.

EL_ULY > Jagvar
10/14/2013 at 16:44

lol right

HammerheadFistpunch > Jagvar
10/14/2013 at 16:46

no really, that's my brother crazy talk, we're all a little worried about him.

dinobot666 > Jagvar
10/14/2013 at 17:22

Either way, it does a good job of illustrating how stupid it is to celebrate a country being "discovered" by somebody when there were already inhabitants there when it was "discovered"

Axel-Ripper > For Sweden
10/14/2013 at 19:50

Well the Redskins were featured on Sunday Night Football. Thats close enough, right?

(I am, of course, jesting with this. I am not, nor have I ever been racist.)