Is Christopher Colombus a victim of Cancel Culture?

[Middle-aged Europe]

Columbus was mainly in it for the money and the power.

He was even hesistant to baptize indigenous peoples, because this would have limited his opportunities to exploit and enslave them for his own gain - something that was met with criticism at the time.

Sure he (accidentally) discovered America... just like the Nazis' WWII rocket program formed the cornerstone for the later moon landings.

As such, Columbus was probably more the Werher von Braun of his times rather than a Neil Armstrong (and in another parallel, there was and is a tendency in Germany to rename "Von Braun" schools and streets due to his involvement in the use of concentration camp inmates as slave labour to build rockets).