Cool. Another person who doesn’t understand what Godwin’s law was:

“As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.”

Which is not what I was doing, I was explaining how you are absolving a monster because someone else would have done it eventually (ignoring the fact that his atrocities were so awful that the Spanish royals even told him to cut that shit out, literally bringing him back to Spain in chains).

Even Mike Godwin thinks you’ve missed the point:

My feeling was that the more people got into this habit, the less likely that people remembered the historical context of all this. And as you know, one of the injunctions of Holocaust historians is that we must never forget, we have to remember. And I just thought, Well, I’m going to do a little experiment and see if I could make people remember.

nymag.com/…/godwins-law-mike-godwin-hitler-nazi-c…

I was literally putting something in historical context and literally talking about the actual Holocaust.

But the main thing is that Columbus was so bad that even people at the time said he was a monster:

Bobadilla collected the testimonies of 23 people who had seen or heard about the treatment meted out by Columbus and his brothers. “Even those who loved him had to admit the atrocities that had taken place,” Ms Varela said.

Columbus and his brothers were forced to travel back to Spain. Columbus was in chains but, although he never recovered his titles, he was set free and allowed to sail back to the Caribbean.

“Columbus and his brothers come across in the text as tyrants,” Ms Varela said. "Now one can understand why he was sacked and we can see that there were good reasons for doing so.

“The monarchs wanted someone who did not give them problems. Columbus did not solve problems, he created them.”

www.theguardian.com/world/2006/aug/…/books.spain

I’m sure you’ll continue to try to do this silly “we can’t vilify Columbus for starting off centuries of genocide and oppression because someone else just as bad could have come along,” but hopefully everyone else will figure out that he was one of the greatest monsters in human history.