Podcast
Behind the Bastards
The podcast heavily references and critiques Delaney's book which focuses on Christopher Columbus's writings and attempts to portray him in a more positive light by focusing on seemingly benevolent actions and minimizing the violence and harm inflicted on the indigenous populations. The hosts of the podcast disagreed with her interpretations.
our friend Carol Delaney absolutely fawns over the descriptions Columbus writes of people and geography.
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The podcast heavily references and critiques Delaney's book which focuses on Christopher Columbus's writings and attempts to portray him in a more positive light by focusing on seemingly benevolent actions and minimizing the violence and harm inflicted on the indigenous populations. The hosts of the podcast disagreed with her interpretations.
our friend Carol Delaney absolutely fawns over the descriptions Columbus writes of people and geography.
She glosses over the fact that he like she talks about like what a good like anthropological attention to detail that he does that he has which is interesting because he's also like dismissing all of these different gifts.
So in short order Columbus takes his little fleet away from this first island, which is probably San Salvador and heads towards Cuba, which he thinks is Japan, right?
she assures us that the experience was meant to be reciprocal so that his family could learn it.
It's like a you know, it's like a gap year cultural exchange for these people.