Back in my day, everyone celebrated Christopher Columbus and Columbus Day
Maybe because other perspectives are now allowed to be expressed. Not only White but also Blacks and Natives were allowed to speak beyond their ghettos.
If you go to North Korea, you will hear plenty praise for Juche; why, then, North Korean defectors are against it? Same with cults.
Reminds me about an article about a sheriff in a Southern county who was active in the 1960s: while the White population thought that he was a good sheriff, the Black population had a more negative experience.
For one thing, the Columbus critics have been using a 20th- and 21st-century measuring stick on a 15th-century man
Tell us why the Catholc Kings, who lived in the 15th century and who rpesided in the religious cleansing of Spain, thought that Colombus was beyond the pale.