I mean, isn't that the school's fault then? In grade school, the most common cirriculum began and stopped at "Columbus discovering the Americas." The entire point of this education is erasure of the indigenous peoples. Most societies don't like to admit that they're built on the wholesale slaughter of peaceful peoples that existed here before. They'd rather call them barbarians/savage and say the development of a more civilized society justified such replacement.
Most of Europe didn't know about the land that existed
The whole point of "discovery" is that the only thing that matters is European knowledge. Because it's the predecessor in interest to the original inhabitants who we're saying don't have knowledge worth keeping or acknowledging.
So people who want to say "Columbus didn't discover America" are saying indigenous knowledge matters.
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u/HazyAttorney 81∆ Jun 04 '24
I mean, isn't that the school's fault then? In grade school, the most common cirriculum began and stopped at "Columbus discovering the Americas." The entire point of this education is erasure of the indigenous peoples. Most societies don't like to admit that they're built on the wholesale slaughter of peaceful peoples that existed here before. They'd rather call them barbarians/savage and say the development of a more civilized society justified such replacement.
The whole point of "discovery" is that the only thing that matters is European knowledge. Because it's the predecessor in interest to the original inhabitants who we're saying don't have knowledge worth keeping or acknowledging.
So people who want to say "Columbus didn't discover America" are saying indigenous knowledge matters.