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You tell me why Columbus is more worthy of honor than MLK.
Keep in mind, you're the one who made this value statement.
If most Americans want to honor both of them, they can.
I only honor one of them, and I can do that.
Doesn't change the simple fact that we can honor whichever historical figures we choose, whichever lens we use. And it is necessarily a choice that we are always free to make.
No argument at all. And if one group has erected a statue to honor someone, then who are you to tell them to take it down?
The paradox that "they wouldn't be here if it wasn't for Columbus"?
As I have shown, that "paradox" literally exists for pretty much every single person/event that lead to the colonization of the Americans, and eventual formation of the USA. Why do all of these events or people not have holidays, too?
It doesn't really matter what their reasons are for wanting the holiday name changed - and your "paradox" really doesn't invalidate anything, either.
No you have not shown anything at all. All you are doing is throwing out a few irrelevant semantics.
There is a pronounced absurdity in decrying that which brought you about.
"Now everyone bow your heads for a moment in respect for Oog the caveman, without whom America would never have existed. It was on this day in the year 67,000 BC that Oog's wife Ugga gave birth to the great great great great great great great(x200).... great great great grandfather of George Washington. Happy Oog day everyone! Remember to leave your buck skin loin cloths near the fire pit, so Oog can fill them with the finest rocks!"
And no Ferdinand and Isabella, no Columbus journey...no Moth.
I can pick any event in history and make the exact same claim of a "paradox".
The fact that you aren't getting this insanely easy example means that we have reached our logical end of this conversation.
Besides that, the concept that renaming a holiday that was named after a person to be named after someone or something else actually erases that person from history is completely bizarre. I guess all the founding fathers who DON'T have their own holidays never existed. OMG it's a paradox, someone tell America that it doesn't actually exist!
How about we make a compromise. Conservatives want a holiday named after Columbus and Liberals don't want a holiday that honors a man who committed genocide. So we will have Columbus day to be a day of remembrance similar to Pearl Harbor day or 9/11. Everyone will contemplate about the horrors Christopher committed and how it affected the indigenous peoples of the Americas but also contemplate about all the good things that also occurred afterwards and to remind ourselves that the world doesn't operate in a black and white world, but one where things are very muddy and hard to decipher.
How about we make a compromise. Conservatives want a holiday named after Columbus and Liberals don't want a holiday that honors a man who committed genocide. So we will have Columbus day to be a day of remembrance similar to Pearl Harbor day or 9/11. Everyone will contemplate about the horrors Christopher committed and how it affected the indigenous peoples of the Americas but also contemplate about all the good things that also occurred afterwards and to remind ourselves that the world doesn't operate in a black and white world, but one where things are very muddy and hard to decipher.
Meanwhile these same people have no problem living, working, etc etc on the very land taken from those murdered native Americans.
I guess they don't know history. The so-called "native Americans" committed atrocities that were very brutal and bloody.
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