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You seem to like hearing yourself talk.

Neither one represents my views. As usual it will come down to who I think is the least worst and it's too early for that.

You really are an id-yit. Do you think they changed the name of the place just because deGama found a sea route to a place they already knew about?

FFS, you say you know something about history? Have you never heard of Marco Polo or the Silk Road? Venice and Genoa were the major naval powers in the Mediterranean and became fabulously rich trading with the Indies through the Middle East and Ottoman Empire for two centuries before Columbus. de Gama found the first sea route to the Indies in 1497 but Europeans had been trading overland for centuries.

Europeans knew about and traded with the Indies for over 300 years before Columbus. Alexander the Great reached the valley of the Indus in 326 BC.

The term Indies and Indians originally came from the region surrounding the Indus river and was expanded to describe all of South East Asia and some of Oceana. It had nothing to do with North American "Indians". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Indian_influence_on_Southeast_Asia

When I look at our choices, JT or PP, I despair.

I was responding you your post that maintained Florida had the lowest cost in the country for a bachelor's degree. Do you even remember what you post?

Trudeau lies. Nothing new here.

Maybe in your own strange world but that isn't how you present. Your grasp of history is very racist.

Yes you are. En Dios is all about religion, a foreign religion in a foreign language. Want to find a goose stepper, just look in your mirror. You probably still call Inuit, Eskimos another name dreamed up by the white man.

You are.

A: Indigenous people were not Christian B: They didn't speak Spanish. ? If I call you mo-ron, that doesn't make it your name, even if it is accurate.

What rot. They were named Indians because Columbus was looking for a quicker route to Asia and didn't know there was another continent in the way. How does a bunch of Europeans naming a continent after a Spaniard have anything to do with the people who were already living there? The Indies were a region, not a country which among others included modern India, Pakistan and Indonesia (Dutch East Indies) Europeans have a bunch of different cultures and languages. What's your point?

Why would they come here except to have our standard of living?

Liberals want to increase immigration to 500K a year. The Boomers won't die off that fast.

My GP is South Asian, don't know if he was born here and don't care cause I really like him.

It's called being on a voter's list. They do have them in the US.

All dead people are Democrats, don't ya know.

I don't think that white people are the only ones who do that. It's only natural to be biased toward people like yourself.

I don't dispute that it was considered normal in many places but because of money, not morality. The rationale was no different from the Nazis, black people weren't really considered human so whatever you did to them was OK. The difference was slavers wanted their labour, not their lives which were only valued as a commodity.

As usual, your evidence is an insult.

reason10 isn't capable of posting without insults. He just doesn't know how.

That's 17 years less than the average American life expectancy in 1850 or 45% lower.

Slavery was always wrong and they knew it. It was about money, it always is and slavery would still exist if it wasn't illegal.