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I have no problem with 'Indigenous Day' and I have no problem with ceasing Columbus Day (I am a Leif Eriksson fan, anyway), but to have one replace the other smacks of PC politics and 'empty justice' rather than anything useful or helpful to society.
I'm half Italian-American and I have no interest in celebrating Columbus. I don't understand why so many Italians get their panties in a bunch whenever anyone mentions the many evil acts of Columbus.
I'm half Italian-American and I have no interest in celebrating Columbus. I don't understand why so many Italians get their panties in a bunch whenever anyone mentions the many evil acts of Columbus.
Well to be fair...his arrival here was a rather significant occurrence, good or bad.
I can understand the pride they have so long as it doesn't bleed over into the irrational.
I have no problem with 'Indigenous Day' and I have no problem with ceasing Columbus Day (I am a Leif Eriksson fan, anyway), but to have one replace the other smacks of PC politics and 'empty justice' rather than anything useful or helpful to society.
How does that work?
You have no problem with Indigenous Day.
You have no problem with ceasing Columbus Day.
Got it. We agree.
But you have a problem when the one you like replaces the one you don't like because it may or may not be PC politics.
I'm half Italian-American and I have no interest in celebrating Columbus. I don't understand why so many Italians get their panties in a bunch whenever anyone mentions the many evil acts of Columbus.
Yeah, dissing Columbus is the equivalent of using Ragu to many of them. Especially the old schoolers of course.
Don't you think that 77 years of celebrating the ethic cleansing that occurred here, in the interest of establishing the states that eventually became our nation, is enough? Or is your point that ethnic cleansing is a good thing, as long as it clears the way for the ethnicities you like to prevail? Or are you in the camp that refuses to admit the truth, and thereby deny that what happened here was indeed systematic forced removal of the pre-Columbian nations from these territories with the intent of creating territories inhabited by people of mostly European extraction, and of mostly Christian persuasion?
Do you carry around a roil of toilet paper to wipe the crap that runs from your mouth? Your so called ethnic cleansing was occurring on this continent long before Columbus showed up...What are you going to do about it anyhow? nothing but rant ineffectually on the internet.. BTW a simple study of history will show that indigenous populations have been displaced by others since we came down from the trees.....
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..What are you going to do about it anyhow? nothing but rant ineffectually on the internet.. BTW a simple study of history will show that indigenous populations have been displaced by others since we came down from the trees....
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