I’m a leftist and I don’t think Cristopher Columbus statues should be torn down and his name despised. Can we all stop using Columbus as the sole scapegoat for European colonialism?
Columbus was first and foremost a sailor and an explorer, while a governor of a marginal American island for a mere 8 years.
Blaming everything bad that has happened to the indigenous people on one guy is just an easy way out for white people to feel better about ourselves (because, after all, it was only one bad apple’s fault, right?).
Please watch this video for a more neutral point of view