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Even though it remains a national holiday, many cities no longer celebrate Columbus Day. They celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day instead. What’s behind the switch? Contrary to what you might think, it’s not about paying homage to America’s original inhabitants. Steven Crowder, host of Louder with Crowder, explains.
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Thanksgiving. Independence Day. Memorial Day.

Holidays are a great time to riddle Americans with needless, oppressive guilt.

But the one that stands head and shoulders above the rest is Columbus Day—the day where progressives indoctrinate your children into believing Columbus to be Satan incarnate, the USA to be his evil spawn, and the Native Americans to be pacifists. And so now we have “Indigenous Peoples Day” or, as it would have been named thirty years ago, “Aboriginals Day,” or, as it would have been named ten or fifteen years ago, “Native Americans Day,” or, as it could be named tomorrow in Canada, “First Nations Peoples Day.”

Feeling the urge to self-inflict grievous bodily harm yet? That’s only natural, because the whole charade has become an exercise in hating Western civilization, which is really just an exercise in hating yourself.

First, as far as Columbus goes, the guy deserves some credit, right? Flawed, to be sure, but he was the greatest navigator of his age—the first person to cross the Atlantic from the continent of Europe. And he did so without any maps and only three small ships. If you can name them, by the way, comment below, as I’m sure your professor can’t.

But your professor probably has taught you the tale of Columbus as a villain, usually as a starting off point to indict the United States as a whole, often relying on a few key myths and some pivotal lies by omission.

So, to start with, I’ll bet that you probably believe Columbus and other European settlers to simply have committed mass genocide against Native Americans…sorry; Indigenous.

But here’s the truth: While there were many examples of brutal warfare between Europeans and Native Americans, neither side actually committed genocide; in fact, there was never an outright policy of Indian extermination.

The Native Americans were mostly wiped out through infectious diseases that the settlers had inadvertently brought with them. Of the estimated 250,000 natives in Hispaniola, Columbus’s first stop in the Americas in 1492, new infectious diseases wiped out a staggering 95% of their population by 1517.

As far as the genocide by violence, you can look at any historical account of even the most one-sided battles and find that they were still just that—battles. Take Wounded Knee (although hundreds of years later, I only bring it up because I know that if I don’t, you will). It’s become ubiquitous with the idea of Native Americans’ genocide. After all, there were 150-350 Aboriginals killed or wounded. That’s terrible, but there were also 25 American soldiers killed and 39 wounded. That’s not genocide; that’s a one-sided beatdown with Old Glory wielding the hammer.

And sometimes the “massacres” went the other direction. See the Apaches for reference, or the Comanches, or a dozen or so other tribes. So, the natives often gave as good as they got—not exactly the way genocide usually tends to work.

Here’s another thing I bet you’ve been made to believe: that many Native Americans…sorry; American Indians…sorry; Idon’tknowwhat-takeyourpick lived in harmony with the environment until Columbus arrived, and European settlers destroyed the land with their evil technology.

Truth? Not only did the Natives brutally take out PEOPLE, but they took out entire forests and hunted species to extinction.

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  1. You know your just saying naitves should suffer is deserved becuse they killed raied and insvled people and once more there primitive Neanderthals I guess the same could be said for the tribes in new Zealand and new ganune and the amazon and if that happens histroy will repeat its self

  5. Here’s a little fact Christopher Columbus was arrested and jailed by the queen of Spain over the mistreatment of Native Americans. He was laugh dad not because people thought the world was flat but because his Mabs were an accurate and Rob assume in the world was smaller than it actually was. He found the Americas by dumb luck and I can’t be about the status but if people were there already then he did discover Jack, oh and also the Vikings found the Americas first buy your pants that Are

  6. 2:18 sometime tells me that this dude didn’t research what actually killed those on the American side, it was friendly fire from the fire they shot directly into the crowd where both sides were fighting. Seems America often can never see clearly who is friend or foe, even when it’s obvious

  12. Picking on a dead man who can’t defend himself is simple bullying. He was a commoner sailing for a different country than his own. Who do you think lauded this guy: the royalty of the time or the other common men of the time?

  13. At that time all peoples migrated when resources got scarce, pushing natives aside. Native americans rolled over each other before we got here, and continued to after we got here, and rolled over us a number of times also. We just ended up on top. It was the custom of the times, no side was less barbaric then any other. Our side was better armed, but was in possession of no better self control or morals. Assigning modern standards on primitive peoples is sophistry. Vain self serving preening to show how great, superior we are to our ancestors, and blameing their descendents is moral stupidy, ignoring that if we'd been born in those times we'd have been doing the same things, or getting them done to us.

  17. Columbus does not deserve to be praised, or recognized as a good man. The queen, herself at the time of Spain told them not to hurt the indigenous peoples, but he went around and did the exact opposite.

  18. Washington Irving, wrote a fictionalized version of Columbus, a story that people turn into fact that they taught in schools. That’s how people think he discovered America and thought the world was flat.(he didn’t that’s just what people are taught.)

  21. If he just made the claim that hundreds of native Americans were killed, but 25 settlers were also killed so it’s okay then with his logic if someone was kidnapped and fought back the kidnapper is now in the right.

  24. So dramatic. The general argument isn’t that Columbus was satan (even though I wouldn’t call him a good guy either), but that you can’t discover someone else’s home lol, and that he never set foot on the north american continent, and was lost when he stumbled upon the islands. All that other stuff is simply an “I know you are but what am I argument” and completely washes over the following atrocities that did take place. Yeah you can call them battles, but if some unknown person steps inside your home, what are you most likely to do? Welcome them in graciously, or defend your territory against said intruder?

  26. I was born and raised in Italy, I’m an American citizen and very much unapologetic.

    I celebrate Christopher Columbus, Columbus Day. I’m heterosexual, Christian and have no pity for those FCK UP bleeding hearts libertards.

    🇺🇸

  27. One of the most offensive and manipulative videos of this channel and that's saying alot. Go watch knowing better if you want to learn history. Listen to this if you want to be protected from the truth of American history.

  29. "That wasn't a genocide, that was a battle!" about Wounded Knee as if most of those deaths weren't due to friendly fire courtesy of the Hotchkiss Mountain gun.

    American troops raided the camp and slaughtered the Natives mercilessly, and they died when their poorly coordinated artillery support hit their own troops.

    Wouldn't be PragerU without the intentional disinformation now would it? There's tons more stuff in this video, but it would take a lot of time to cover it all and when it's narrated by someone whose main accomplishments amount to making shit up about climate science while on a channel funded by fossil fuel billionaires, I don't feel inclined to respond fully.

    There is only one good PragerU video, and it's the one about how the south seceded because of slavery, and two others about nuclear power that are almost okay.

  30. 2:18 fun fact: those 25 killed and 19 wounded were all from friendly fire. And you want to know a synonym for a "one sided beatdown"? A massacre. Because that's what it was. Looks like "Old Glory's hammer" couldn't distinguish between friend or foe.

  31. And cuz native Americans oved a life of violence doesn't make it I'm anyway right for them to be killed
    You can use this same argument to justify the actions does to my continent cuz africa wasn't a peaceful place
    But cuz it wasn't peaceful doesn't make it right for Europeans to do waht they did killed tribes culture historical artifacts stole from this place
    And also killing the other side they only did to protect themselves from harm I mean if some guy with a gun came around killing my people I would he willing to fight to protect people

  32. He didn't start mass genocide he was the match the the candles to the genocide based off journals from him and his crew
    He litrelly started the genocide and cuz he didn't kill people doesn't make him less of a had guy this is why in south africa we don't have Jan van Riebeek day his actions caused the total collapse of South africa

  43. When Native American people went to war with other native tribes we left no survivors. Women, men, and children killed due to what disagreement started the war. Native people were at once one with nature so much so we showed in when we went to war. Native people are not innocent by any means however that doesn’t mean we have not had the shit end of the stick for 150+ years.