[Sca-cooks] OT: With all due respect

[Stephanie Yokom]

Shouldn't the bigger question here be-  is this really relevant to the SCA
cooks list?

I am rather confused why it was posted


Stephanie

On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Kate Wood <malkin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 6:18 PM, James Prescott
> <prescotj at telusplanet.net> wrote:
> >
> > Whoa!
> >
> > Are you implying that the "colonization of the Americas", aka the brutal
> > theft
> > of two continents from their inhabitants, with rape, murder, and
> genocide,
> > is
> > somehow on a higher moral plane than the slave trade?
>
> I can't quite tell if you're being facetious or not, so I'll answer
> seriously. Of course not - genocide was quite bad enough, and just one
> reason the lionization of Columbus is uncomfortable to say the least.
> However, it also had a direct connection to the formation of the
> organized slave trade in the Americas, which the OP appears to be
> either ignorant of or simply not considering to be important.
>
> Kate
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