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Imagine if you will, Christopher Columbus.

Nice, I have a holiday. Well, Karamba, I should. Obviously, that's not really Columbus.

This is a cartoon Columbus. He's got electric blue eyes and a big toothy grin. He's a character

in a 13-minute video called Leo and Leila meet Christopher Columbus. John Neville of Media Matters

recently watched it for work. So he starts off telling the kids this sort of justification

for Columbus's treatment of the indigenous people. Cannibals? Like they eat people, see?

Whoa, right? Hey, all the things that are bad in the world I come from, jealousy,

line, murder, war. It all exists in the land I just found too. Ah, in Europe, we draw the line

at things like eating people and human sacrifice. And one of the lines that this fictional

Columbus character says is that slavery existed everywhere. It's clearly designed to be excopatory

towards the history of slavery in the United States and Europe more broadly. Slavery is as

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