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Multiculturalists everywhere are high-fiving each other, because to modern progressivism, Columbus is a villain of the highest order. To hear them tell the story, he was the quintessential straight "white" male, brimming with privilege and wealth, who used and abused BIPOC bodies in an orgy of death he unleashed across two continents. It doesn't matter how detached from reality portions of that narrative are – the mob has convinced themselves it's true.

Who in their right mind wants to get steamrolled by that cancel machine in order to stick up for a famous boat captain who died over five centuries ago? The majority of sane people left in our society have judiciously opted to pick their battles with the Twitter-driven outrage machine. As long as they still get that Monday off from work, they really don't care whose name is attached to it.

I get that. But I also can't help but crack up at the moral pomposity of the progressive justice brigade congratulating themselves right now. They are so concerned about the "problematic" sins of Columbus that they replace him with "indigenous" people – a group whose legacy includes more misogyny, sexual assault, human and child sacrifice, cannibalism, and unhinged violence than Christopher and his band of merry men could have committed in 1,000 lifetimes.

Start in Central America, the stomping grounds of Columbus and his fellow Spaniards. Just before the arrival of the "barbaric" Europeans, those distinguished indigenous tribes were up to many outrageous things.

Aztec priests, using razor-sharp obsidian blades, sliced open the chests of sacrificial victims and offered their still-beating hearts to the gods. They then tossed the victims' lifeless bodies down the steps of the towering Templo Mayor.

That's not exactly "singing with all the voices of the mountain" and painting "with the colors of the wind."