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Does…that make all those things okay then?

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Another fun quote: “Being taken as a slave is better than being killed, no?”. Plenty to grab from that quote, but there are reports the indigenous people got so depressed excited to enter the kingdom of heaven they essentially did nothing for as long as they could, simply waiting to die.

Also I watched this full video, because I feel like it’s important to get full context of these things. I learned some other stuff:

• Muslims blocked the route to China, India, etc. and Muslims were at war with Spain. No particular country, just “Muslims”.
• The indigenous population ate people, and sure Europe wasn’t great but at least they didn’t EAT people. Plus, they worshiped false gods and not the GOD, so while the folks Columbus met were pretty nice the rest of them were pretty terrible. Still, he had to spread Christianity to the tribes he met too.
• Surprisingly, the tribes Columbus met were actually intelligent, and could even do stuff like copy the sounds/words Columbus made! Amazing what these primitive people could accomplish! It’s like they’re almost human.
• Everything needs context of their time. For example, slavery has been around forever so we can’t really judge from our 500 years future perspective. We also can’t use other people’s opinions on Columbus at the time because they were competitors of Columbus. Thus, any criticism of Columbus (and perhaps, anyone in history) is just people not understanding that events in the past can’t be judged from our lens of the present.

Columbus, slavery = forgiven!

There’s a good 3-part Behind the Bastards episodes on Columbus. If anyone hasn’t had a listen it’s a great overview of what Columbus really was: a bastard.

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If you deflate the tires, doesn’t that reduce the mpg of the vehicle?

I’m a cis male, so I can’t speak from the perspective of an LGBTQ+ person, just an ally. I definitely want to echo that Eastern WA (east of the Cascades) is much more conservative than western WA. As someone who lives in Spokane and moved from the west side of the state, I hear can be a better place, but frankly it’s relative to eastern WA and Idaho. Spokane is a short drive (~30 minutes or so) to Idaho, and even less-so to its counterpart Spokane Valley. Even then, it’s a stark contrast between north Spokane city and south Spokane city.

Puget Sound, specifically King county, will be the best place in my opinion for Washington. The greater Seattle metro and i5 corridor is probably the right place to start looking. Keep in mind the further from Seattle and Capitol Hill you go, the more pockets of right-wing you find.