Talk:Christopher Columbus/@comment-98.234.2.17-20140521010311

It is not fair to demonizes Christopher Columbus this way.

First of all, diseases killed 90% of the natives who died as a result of the Colombian exchange. While there are some instances of settlers and pioneers greasing the wheels a bit (after Columbus already died), for the most part it spread accidentally (the result of Europe's lack of medical knowledge, and the natives lack of immunities).

While it is true that the Conquistadors commit mass murder against the natives, the people like Cortez came after Columbus had already died.

His crewmen are the ones who killed natives. His ship couldn't bring them all back, so he left crewmen behind; they were violent so the natives killed them. When Columbus returned, he found his dead crew members and assumed the natives just killed them for no reason.

As for the accusations of brutality, why does nobody find it odd that most of the "witnesses" wanted Columbus out of office? When all the successors were equally cruel as columbus was accused of being (if not more), nobody batted an eye. It is possible that Columbus was railroaded.

At the very least, try telling both sides of the story.