10/9/2023, 3:52 pm
Happy Columbus Day, because today is Columbus Day despite attempts by social justice agitators to re-name it “Indigenous People’s Day” and vilify Columbus as a genocidal, slave-owning colonizer and a patriarchal cis-gendered meat eater who didn’t recycle.
Columbus Day rightly celebrates the accomplishments of Christopher Columbus for a number of of reasons, not least of which was proving to Europe that the world is not flat and that the open oceans could be navigated over longer distances than previously imagined.
By sailing across the Atlantic in search of a western mercantile passage to India and making landfall in the Caribbean, Columbus also discovered not “America” but The Americas (a name not applied to the "New World" until 1507).
Columbus thought he’d found the elusive western passage to India and returned to Spain with the news and some “Indians” in tow as well. It was a historical turning point that set off an avalanche of developments with world-changing implications but Columbus's first voyage was not the quest for gold or slaves that haters paint it as.
Some say Vikings discovered America first, but Vikings never sailed across the open Atlantic and understood America only as a new land, not as a new continent.
Haters sneer that “indigenous peoples” discovered it, but that makes no sense: you can’t discover a place that you’re indigenous to and you can’t be indigenous to a place you migrated to (so-called Native Americans are genetically proven to have migrated from Siberia and Eastern Asia).
So, why do social-justice agitators hate Columbus so much? Because the white-liberal guilt cult can’t deliver their unasked-for advocacy on behalf of what they consider hapless and helpless Native Americans without exaggeration, scapegoats and outright lies to promulgate a picture of a grossly oppressed population of peaceful, wise, spiritual, nature-loving natives who were victims of genocide as a result of the demonic Christopher Columbus guiding the hellish minions of Europe to ravish America’s tranquil shores.
Agitators’ place heavy emphasis on European cruelty, theft, exploitation and slavery but ignore historical fact and archeological evidence showing that the “Indians” of the Americas were no angels. They were habitual slave takers, constantly at war with one another, inflicted torture and routinely practiced cannibalism and ritual human sacrifice. On top of this, they had no concept of private land ownership in a world where forcible land conquest was indisputably the worldwide norm.
The world then—as now—is a world of winners and losers, which brings me to Sasha’s Law:
SASHA’S LAW
Land is only possessed by those who can hold and defend it.
Sasha’s Law is an unalterable truth that transcends human law, dogma, decree, desire or sentiment, and it has a corollary:
SASHA’S OTHER LAW
Ultimately, and no matter how a casus belli is framed,
all war is waged over real estate.
all war is waged over real estate.
Everyone on Earth—alive or dead—is a descendant of someone who came from somewhere other than where their “original" or "first" ancestors” lived. That includes “Aboriginal" Australians, Pacific Islanders, “Native” Americans and all the rest of us.
“Original ancestors” only lived on any given patch of land until they could no longer hold or defend it or until they decided to migrate from it. Humans may have affinities for certain lands or consider them sacred or claim ownership over them but Sasha’s Law has no pity for affinities, perceived sacredness or claims.
Why speak of original ancestors at all? Because the specious “we were here first” argument can’t exist without it and without the “we were here first” argument, grifters can’t create fictitious new classes of oppressed people (e.g. “Palestinians") to agitate people into believing that "their" land was wrested from them by treachery or colonialism (or you name it).
It isn’t much more complicated than that, so, Happy Columbus Day, comrades.
