Comment on Even Omelanda' is disgusted
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 20 hours agoBut they kinda did. After they brought him back for trial… they just let them go, and there was a fourth voyage a couple years later.
Eventually he just retired in Spain and while they didn’t give him the full amount of wealth he was owed…. That wasn’t out of moral outrage.
PugJesus@piefed.social 20 hours ago
They literally sent inspectors to the Americas to investigate the rumors of Columbus’s misrule, and upon finding it, Columbus was stripped of his position as governor and it was given to someone else despite the governorship being one of the key agreements over his original discovery.
His fourth voyage included no promises of governorship, and was supposed to be purely exploratory. It ended up a failure and garnering Columbus nothing.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
oh. They fired him?
They didn’t even take the loot he stole. he was jailed for a bit during trial. and then he was let out. With no charges, keeping his share of the loot… and letting him go on a fourth voyage at all is kinda a tacit approval of his methods.
He’s like the killer cop they just fire and let go back to work in another agency. Or that asshole manager they send in to get get store/plant/whatever under budget and move on out when things are under control.
not exactly a ringing condemnation of assholery.
PugJesus@piefed.social 17 hours ago
I don’t really see how that follows, considering that governing and sailing are two entirely different things.
Considering that he was never considered for a position of governance again, despite spending the last years of his life constantly pleading for his privileges to be restored? It’s more like a killer cop being fired and blacklisted from law enforcement, but not catching any charges, and going back to their pre-cop career. Which is worse than it should be, but certainly not approval (and better than what we see in the States).