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Yeahsayyeah
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« on: October 14, 2014, 07:04:57 AM »
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Probably not. Beware the Ides of Hyperbole!
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Yeahsayyeah
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« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2014, 01:19:45 AM »
Quote from: IDS Speaker Flo on October 14, 2014, 11:39:08 AM
Quote from: Yeahsayyeah on October 14, 2014, 07:04:57 AM
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Probably not. Beware the Ides of Hyperbole!

How is that hyperbole?
To be fair, at first I read "the most despicable human being" and that would clearly qualify. But even your notion would heave Columbus on a podest of cruelty that he would share with several hundred thousand human beings, at least.

2. It's of course pretty comfortable to personalize the cruelty of colonialsm and state that it was that way, because Columbus was so vile.
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