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AtheistDragon

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10. Pirates, "conquerors" are and always have been pirates.

Reply to sulphurdunn (Reply #5)

Wed Jun 5, 2013, 03:09 PM

Jun 2013

Born Cristoforo Colombo, Christopher Columbus was as much a pirate as any other of his contemporaries whom have been immortalized as heroes.

From the Native American POV, they were pirates killing, raping, marauding and destroying the Native Peoples as they went along.
Of course those traditions have not died.

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