Christopher Columbus should not be honored with a holiday in his name.

ok, my oponents main paoints are, 1. Columbus is a bad man so he shouldnt have a holiday 2. there is information proving that he is a bad man, and did bad things to the native Amiercans 3. he discovered America so that he could further himself, and that the discovery of the America's coud have been done by anyone. Now to counter these points i have said 1. Whether or not Columbus is bad is subjective to the person viewing him, and since our society chose to celebrate him our society has decided that his positive attribute outrule the negative 2. Columbus was merely fallowing the orders of his boss the king and queen of Spain 3. The monarchy of spain ruled that the native Americans werent people, so in Columbus's point of view keeping these people as slaves would have been no different than the way we keep pets today 4. The information saying that Columbus is a bad man is limited, historians don't have access to every single thing written about Columbus, so it isn't fair to base our opinion of a man off of the extremily limited text we have left. Keep in mind that the text we do have was written by only 3-5 different people offering only the opinions of 5 men on columbus rather than taht of that of the masses. 5.Many men do things that is socially acceptable Thomas Jefferson held slaves, and even held one as a mistress gainst her will, and after she bore his children he forced them all the continue to be slaves for him, and denied being their father so that he wouldn't have to leave them anything in his will. My opponent said what Columbus did was acceptable, however I don't understand how he could say it is acceptable for one man to do something yet unacceptable for others to do the same thing. That would be discriminatory 6. To refute my opponents argument that columbus discovered America for self gain. Ireminded him that columbus discovered America by ACCIDENT and he beleived he had found an alternate trade route to the indies until he died. And even if Columbus had actually discovered an alternate trade route he did it so that his nation could trade with Asia directly rather than have to go through the middle easterners. So if anything Columbus discovered America through wanting to better the economic situations of thousands of europeans. While his most internal motive may have been to get slaves for himself, Not only can we not know for sure unless it says in his diary "im doing this to get slaves" but we cannot deny there were other more philantrapic motives present. So in the end this is an argument over whether or not Chrisopher Columbus is worthy of a Holiday, The only main reason my opponent has for christopher not to receive his holiday is because he claims that christopher is responsible for numerous hanous acts. However, i have pointed out numerous times during the deabte that whether or not Christopher is a bad man or not is subjective to minds that are interperting him. Since the U.S is the only nation that celebrates Columbus day I assumed the argument was over whther they should celebrate it. Sincs the U.S has also done many hanous acts to native Americans (trail of tears, stealing of land, holding them as slaves. are just a couple) we can assume that the U.S and Christopher have a similar philosophy towards the treatment of native Americans. Due to this Christophers treatment of the indians may not be viewed by the U.S as bad, or at least not bad enough to denounce him. or else they wouldnt celebrate him. Also another point i had is that Christopher is being portrayed falsely. Note that my opponent brings up only incriminating single sided information on christopher. If we only share one half of a story anyone can look better or worse that wjho they truly are. As in my thomas jefferson example. ok im out of time so im ganna cut myself off srry. basically i was ganna recap that chris was doing orders, his acts were acceptable, and he is being mis represented