Kent State Gun Girl Gets History Lesson After Tweeting ‘Columbus Did Nothing Wrong’

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October 12, 2021, 10:17 am

Kent State evidently does not teach a whole lot of history, or at least Kaitlin Bennett, better known to non-fans as the Kent State gun girl, did not take any of those courses. Bennett decided to celebrate what has been formerly known as Columbus day but is really Indigenous Peoples’ Day by tweeting out to the world that “Christopher Columbus did nothing wrong,” a phrase that these days seems to only come from the right when they’re defending just the worst people imaginable.

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But Bennett, whose claim to fame was carrying a big gun around the Kent State campus and harassing everyone until they all hated her, isn’t exactly one to shy away from controversy.

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Christopher Columbus did nothing wrong

— Kaitlin Bennett (@KaitMarieox) October 11, 2021

Even the most right-wing historians have to admit that Columbus did bad things, as the historical accounts of his brutality have been well preserved through the ages. Unless Bennett muted her own tweet right away, she may have had to suffer a glimpse of the accounts of how the man ordered his soldiers to kill indigenous children and babies for no other reason than to “test the sharpness of their blades” and feed them to their dogs. And that really only scratches the surface.

In fact, Columbus was so utterly unnecessarily brutal toward the native populations he ran into that he was imprisoned for his crimes when he was alive. Even back during a time when xenophobia and cruelty toward anyone different is portrayed as the norm, Columbus was doing stuff that was too messed up to avoid a jail cell. Though he was released after somehow defending himself from the charges in court, he lost and was never able to regain his governorship of Hispaniola.

These and other fun facts are currently coming to Bennett for much less than the cost of a Kent State degree.

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Columbus actually revels over and over again in his diaries about how he was considered absurdly cruel and barbarous even for his day.

— Oneironaut (@Oneironautilus) October 12, 2021

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I beg to differ considering his actions eventually led to your birth.

— Big Pesci Island Vibes (@BPIVPodcast) October 12, 2021

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Just murder, slavery, forced conversions, brutal violence. To the point where Spanish royalty had him removed and detained. Yes, the same Spanish royalty behind the Spanish Inquisition thought CC was too brutal and violent.

— Colin D. Halloran (@poetinpinkshoes) October 12, 2021

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Well, he set sail for Asia and ended up in North America, so he must’ve done something wrong.

— Christopher Robinson, MD (@ctrobinsonmd) October 11, 2021

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he literally got the size of the earth wrong, when its real size had been known since the god dang ancient greeks. Kaitlin. He literally didn’t know how big the planet was.

— beagle (@beagles_bagel) October 11, 2021

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*First Published: October 12, 2021, 10:17 am