08-14-2016, 10:06 AM
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Day off work. Duh.
08-14-2016, 10:07 AM
Location: South Jersey
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I concur that Columbus's legacy is bad. I would support an Indigenous Peoples' Day in its place.
08-14-2016, 10:10 AM
Location: annandale, va & slidell, la
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More nonsense from the "all history is ugly" crowd.
08-14-2016, 10:11 AM
Location: annandale, va & slidell, la
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snj90
I concur that Columbus's legacy is bad. I would support an Indigenous Peoples' Day in its place.
Indigenous as of what year?
08-14-2016, 10:12 AM
Location: In your head, rent free
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CA and a couple other states celebrate Cesar Chavez day, if that worthless POS causes people to get a day off anyone is worthy of a day.
08-14-2016, 10:12 AM
Location: Pacific Northwest
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Exactly, Final Move. You beat me to it.
08-14-2016, 10:13 AM
Location: In your head, rent free
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Quote:
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snj90
I concur that Columbus's legacy is bad. I would support an Indigenous Peoples' Day in its place.
How do we pick which Indigenous people we actually celebrate? At some point we'll hit cavemen and it'll offend the dinosaur rights people.
08-14-2016, 10:14 AM
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ReineDeCoeur
Not necessarily. I don't work for the feds, and I get it off. Also, some places alternate the less important holidays.
My impression has been that Columbus Day is really only a thing in places with large Italian populations.
08-14-2016, 10:14 AM
Location: Del Rio, TN
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War Beagle
About the only people who get Columbus day off are federal gubmint employees.
And school teachers.
As far as the OP...yeah, Columbus day is as dumb as MLK day.
08-14-2016, 10:15 AM
Location: Stasis
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Put the right in a tizzy and call by it's Spanish name - Día de la Raza - commemorating the original and ongoing Spanish conquest of the New World.
ColumbusDay / Día de la Raza | Wiki
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