The Columbus Dilemma
Who do we celebrate?
4 min readOct 10, 2022
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The Christopher Columbus debate of today might be as hotly contested as the arguments prior to his voyage in 1492. What insurrection will occur if we denigrate him as the genocidal, bloodthirsty maniac he truly was instead of the bold explorer from our propagandized high school textbooks? Columbus was always a controversial figure.