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Please...I see what you guys are up to. Tearing down memorials, removing state flags, removing names from buildings...it isn't stopping...it's picking up.
You don't fool me. This is just another in a line of insanity the left is trying their luck with. Eventually you people better pray it doesn't backfire on you...
Judging people from long ago by modern day standards is utterly idiotic.
But choosing not to celebrate them using today's standards isn't. We aren't living 600 years ago where genocide in the name of conquest was acceptable. Why should we celebrate it now?
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Originally Posted by Pilot1
Columbus is a significant historical figure and is responsible for discovering the NEW WORLD of which all the Americas are a part including the U.S.
Please...I see what you guys are up to. Tearing down memorials, removing state flags, removing names from buildings...it isn't stopping...it's picking up.
You don't fool me. This is just another in a line of insanity the left is trying their luck with. Eventually you people better pray it doesn't backfire on you...
Me? I'm not up to anything. In my view if there's a statue in a community and people want it taken away, up to them. Whether it's Lee and Longstreet or Elvis and Bigfoot. Up to them. Same with flags, memorials and whatever.
As for Columbus day if you feel that it has been a major holiday in majority, or even plurality of communities, then you are wrong. Like i said unless you work for the government or a bank, most people aren't even aware it exists.
So, if other people want to do something different, up to them. I will just remain to be unaware of it's existence until need something from bank or government office on a future Columbus day, or Indigenous People Day or whatever.
Columbus found the New World. Without him, none of the other explorers would have started their journeys, and it may have been centuries until people started coming to North America.
The indigenous people were a Stone Age, war like and murdering culture that enslaved each other. Savages. We eventually brought technology and culture to what had previously been a wasteland.
Nope. There is substantial proof that the Welch were all over the "New World" in the 1200's.
The Knight's Templer left all kinds of artifacts all up and down the east coast. Artifacts of the Nordic Vikings also litter North America.
Well what did the WELCH do about it? NOTHING. What did Leif Erickson do about it? NOTHING. Columbus did something and the New World began.
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