And I would have mentioned this, you know, just normally, but the Washington Post comes out with their stupid post that they've been doing for like at least the next 20 or 30, the past 20 or 30 years, trying to debunk the celebrations and the acknowledgement of Columbus Day simply because Leif Erikson discovered Newfoundland at around 1000 AD of a post that they called Vinland.
I've seen some really fascinating stuff about the footprint of of the Vikings in North America all the way really down to Boston is what I what I saw and there was there's you know stones that are left there with suggesting that there were camps and that there were functional villages there and it's it's a fascinating story there is nothing to be detracted by the accomplishments of the of the Vikings about the magnitude of their accomplishments.
about those accomplishments and we should never stop studying the incredible footprints and the incredible evidence that is in North America about their work here.
The problem is that instead of the attitude that I'm taking towards Leif Erikson and his accomplishment, which is not to minimize it, The Washington Post and all sorts of leftists, especially anti-Western civilization leftists, try to minimize the accomplishments of Christopher Columbus.
They quote John Steinberg, an archeologist at the University of Massachusetts in Boston.
The one-liner that they use as to explaining why it is, the title of the article asks the question, why is it that Leif Erikson doesn't get more PR for his accomplishment of having been at North America 500 years prior to Columbus? Obviously, if he was there 500 years before Columbus, then he, quote-unquote, discovered America.
He says that Columbus had Bartolome de las Casas, um, writing all these things about their travels.
And I would have mentioned this, you know, just normally, but the Washington Post comes out with their stupid post that they've been doing for like at least the next 20 or 30, the past 20 or 30 years, trying to debunk the celebrations and the acknowledgement of Columbus Day simply because Leif Erikson discovered Newfoundland at around 1000 AD of a post that they called Vinland.
I've seen some really fascinating stuff about the footprint of of the Vikings in North America all the way really down to Boston is what I what I saw and there was there's you know stones that are left there with suggesting that there were camps and that there were functional villages there and it's it's a fascinating story there is nothing to be detracted by the accomplishments of the of the Vikings about the magnitude of their accomplishments.
about those accomplishments and we should never stop studying the incredible footprints and the incredible evidence that is in North America about their work here.
The problem is that instead of the attitude that I'm taking towards Leif Erikson and his accomplishment, which is not to minimize it, The Washington Post and all sorts of leftists, especially anti-Western civilization leftists, try to minimize the accomplishments of Christopher Columbus.
They quote John Steinberg, an archeologist at the University of Massachusetts in Boston.
The one-liner that they use as to explaining why it is, the title of the article asks the question, why is it that Leif Erikson doesn't get more PR for his accomplishment of having been at North America 500 years prior to Columbus? Obviously, if he was there 500 years before Columbus, then he, quote-unquote, discovered America.
He says that Columbus had Bartolome de las Casas, um, writing all these things about their travels.
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