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Red-Pill Lesson on Columbus · Check with Chip

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Check with Chip, brought to you by Operation
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  Speaker 1: Blue Dot Red, turning the Blue Dot Red one podcast
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  Speaker 1: at a time. I did not do a podcast about
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  Speaker 1: Columbus Day, which of course was Monday, because I thought
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  Speaker 1: the Christopher Columbus debate had cooled off, but maybe I
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  Speaker 1: was wrong. A young female country singer made national news
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  Speaker 1: by going off on Columbus. At her concert on Columbus Day,
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  Speaker 1: She talked about what a horrible, terrible, lame loser Columbus was.
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  Speaker 1: Worst person ever. She no doubt was regurgitating the garbage
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  Speaker 1: she had been fed in her education. Time for some
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  Speaker 1: red pill historical reality. Christopher Columbus was the GOAT of explorers. G-O-A-T.
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  Speaker 1: Greatest of all time. His expedition to what Europe called
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  Speaker 1: the New World was motivated by his desire to prove
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  Speaker 1: his theory that the East Indies could be reached by
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  Speaker 1: sailing west. Most educated people at that time believed Earth
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  Speaker 1: was a sphere, but no one had proven it by
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  Speaker 1: circumnavigating the globe. It took unprecedented guts as well as
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  Speaker 1: skill for Columbus to sail west across the Atlantic to
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  Speaker 1: parts unknown in 1492. Columbus also was motivated by a
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  Speaker 1: desire to advance the economic and commercial imperial goals of
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  Speaker 1: his sponsors, the King and Queen of Spain. Another motivation
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  Speaker 1: he shared with the Spanish crown was the missionary zeal
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  Speaker 1: to spread the Christian faith. Columbus was a success as
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  Speaker 1: an explorer, but a failure as an administrator. In violation
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  Speaker 1: of the orders of the Spanish crown, Columbus allowed slavery
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  Speaker 1: and other abuses of the indigenous people to develop under
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  Speaker 1: his governorship. Queen Isabel of Spain spent someone to investigate
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  Speaker 1: and had Columbus brought back to Spain in chains. The
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  Speaker 1: left says that was just the beginning. The left blames Columbus, Christianity,
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  Speaker 1: and the European culture that migrated to the Americas for
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  Speaker 1: the exploitation and death suffered by indigenous peoples after Europeans arrived.
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  Speaker 1: Tragedies such as those uncovered at religious Indian schools are heart-rending.
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  Speaker 1: Some allegations have been debunked, but even genuine cases do
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  Speaker 1: not change the fact that Christian missionaries frequently were in
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  Speaker 1: conflict with civil authorities because the missionaries advocated for the
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  Speaker 1: natural rights of the indigenous. The U.S. government often called
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  Speaker 1: on Jesuit Father Pierre-Jean de Smet to broker peace with
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  Speaker 1: indigenous tribes, but ignored Father De Smet when he urged
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  Speaker 1: that treaty obligations be honored and human dignity be respected.
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  Speaker 1: Watch the mission to see what happened to Jesuit missionaries
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  Speaker 1: in South America who stood up for the local people
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  Speaker 1: against European colonial officials. The left asserts that the indigenous
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  Speaker 1: lived in harmony with nature and each other until Europeans
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  Speaker 1: arrived and destroyed their idyllic society. Typical are claims such
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  Speaker 1: as the one by U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota
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  Speaker 1: in a House floor debate that hundreds of millions of
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  Speaker 1: indigenous were wiped out in a Native American genocide. The
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  Speaker 1: facts do not support that narrative. No one knows how
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  Speaker 1: many people lived in the Americas before the arrival of Europeans,
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  Speaker 1: the consensus of the most scholarly rigorous historians and anthropologists
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  Speaker 1: is a range from a few million to 20 million.
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  Speaker 1: Accidental spread of disease caused more death to the indigenous
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  Speaker 1: than did violence by Europeans and their descendants. Death still
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  Speaker 1: is death, but there was no organized campaign of genocidal
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  Speaker 1: mass murder of the indigenous by the hundreds of millions.
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  Speaker 1: The left loves to apologize for, but never return, the
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  Speaker 1: allegedly stolen land on which the USA was built. Today's
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  Speaker 1: indigenous Americans are descended from Asians who migrated from Siberia.
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  Speaker 1: Whom did they displace? Even if they were the first
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  Speaker 1: humans to inhabit this hemisphere, Who will referee the competing
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  Speaker 1: historical territorial claims of rival tribes? Wars of conquest were common.
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  Speaker 1: Anthropological evidence indicates that within and between tribes, lethal violence
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  Speaker 1: was a regular feature of life. I wish those who
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  Speaker 1: romanticized life in pre-Columbian America could be transported back in
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  Speaker 1: time to the Americas before the arrival of Europeans. they
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  Speaker 1: likely would find life difficult, especially if their beating hearts
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  Speaker 1: were ripped out of their chests and stuffed down the
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  Speaker 1: gullet of a stone idol. What is now Mexico in
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  Speaker 1: Central America was the scene of blood-soaked extravaganzas of human
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  Speaker 1: sacrifice to devil gods. Human sacrifice was not unique to
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  Speaker 1: the Americas. Societies the world over throughout history have done it.
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  Speaker 1: A thousand years prior, to the ritual evisceration conducted by
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  Speaker 1: the Aztecs, my ancestors in Ireland were sacrificing people on
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  Speaker 1: stone altars to pagan gods, until St. Patrick arrived and
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  Speaker 1: broke up that racket. But the Aztecs did it on
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  Speaker 1: an industrial scale. Other indigenous groups, whose men, women, and
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  Speaker 1: children were victimized sometimes by the thousands in these slaughter festes,
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  Speaker 1: helped Europeans overthrow the Aztec leadership, end the worship of
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  Speaker 1: devil gods, and allow natural law, natural rights, and Judeo-Christian
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  Speaker 1: teaching to take root in the Americas. Catholics believe it
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  Speaker 1: is no accident that the appearance in Mexico in 1531
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  Speaker 1: of Our Lady of Guadalupe, an apparition of Mary, the
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  Speaker 1: Mother of God, patroness of the Americas, no accident that
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  Speaker 1: it happened a decade after the defeat of the devil
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  Speaker 1: god worshippers. Don't be fooled by this serene image of
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  Speaker 1: Guadalupe left on the cloak of the man to whom
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  Speaker 1: she appeared. Her name means she who crushes the head
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  Speaker 1: of the serpent, referring to an indigenous devil god, but
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  Speaker 1: also to Satan. She appeared as a mestiza, a mixed one,
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  Speaker 1: a beautiful racial mixture of indigenous and European. Why did
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  Speaker 1: she not appear as her Jewish self? If local resonance
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  Speaker 1: was the goal, she could have appeared as a full-blooded
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  Speaker 1: indigenous woman. Guadalupe seems to be a sign that the
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  Speaker 1: blending of indigenous and European peoples in the Americas was
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  Speaker 1: divine providence. Nothing excuses the way the indigenous were at
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  Speaker 1: times cheated, bullied, enslaved, or killed by Europeans and their descendants.
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  Speaker 1: Those were violations of natural law. Despite such wrongs, the
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  Speaker 1: culture based on natural law brought by Columbus and the
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  Speaker 1: Europeans who followed him offered something better. Just as the
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  Speaker 1: culture based on natural law brought from the Middle East
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  Speaker 1: to pre-Christian Europe offered something better than what existed in
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  Speaker 1: pagan Europe. The left calls that view white supremacy. even
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  Speaker 1: though the original Middle Eastern emissaries of natural law were
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  Speaker 1: more olive-toned than white. They certainly were darker than the
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  Speaker 1: Europeans to whom they brought natural law. Anyway, it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: matter what color they were. They brought natural law and
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  Speaker 1: Judeo-Christian teaching to Europe, which generated Western civilization. Then Europeans
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  Speaker 1: brought Western civilization based on natural law and Judeo-Christian teaching
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  Speaker 1: to the Americas. We in the USA now live in
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  Speaker 1: the greatest society in history, a society to which people
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  Speaker 1: all over the planet still gravitate because it produces the
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  Speaker 1: best life for the most people. So thank you, Christopher Columbus,
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  Speaker 1: flawed though you were, for using your courage, your ability
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  Speaker 1: as a mariner, and your faith in God to introduce
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  Speaker 1: Western civilization to the Americas. one of the most pivotal
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  Speaker 1: feats in history. Your accomplishment has benefited hundreds of millions
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  Speaker 1: of people, and the best is yet to come. That's
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  Speaker 1: Check with Chip. I'm Chip Maxwell. Thank you for listening.