I just laughed out loud at this on twitter. Josh Mandel is an absolute idiot.

[JoanofArgh]

Link to tweet

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Edit to add: A Christopher Columbus statue used to be where Mandel is standing, so you don't actually have to listen to him.

[marble falls]

1. They revel in their ignorance.

[CurtEastPoint]

2. Oh, you just know he was pantsed and head stuck in the urinal in school. What an asshole.

[Celerity]

3. He literally called Columbus an AMERICAN heroe. Wtf. He was

an Italian, sailing under a Spanish royal commission, who never set foot on what is now mainland American soil, and the US did not even exist for close to 300 years after Columbus first came over.

Fucking numpty git.

[unblock]

4. Columbus was a slaver who never set foot on American soil

He landed in what is now the Dominican Republic, and promptly engaged in slave trafficking of the people who were there first.

So, we have freedom in America because a guy who didn't discover anything, was never in America, and was all about slavery?

Ok josh.

[Journeyman]

5. That was cool -- lots of traffic sounds and wind. Helps you appreciate good film making . . .

and intelligent work in general.