Despite the fact that it’s pretty much inarguable at this point that Christopher Columbus was a monster of historical proportions — the debate is, at this point, how great of one he was, comparatively speaking — there are many people who still vehemently defend him as a sort of sad proxy of their childhood or ideology:
Then, of course, there are those with common sense:
Go figure….There is a #ColumbusWasAHero for those who can't get over the fact that he is probably one of the worst individuals in history.
— c. (@JamesonNoChaser) October 12, 2015
And because it’s the Internet, there are those just here for the lulz: