No Columbus Day in Columbus: City to honor veterans instead
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No Columbus Day in Columbus
While I get it was the politically safe choice, Veteran's Day is literally in a month.
Yeah, but honoring all the Native Americans who died wouldn't go over as well with the R crew.
>Columbus Italian Festival board member Joseph Contino
>"It's very in vogue politically right now to do that. It's not PC for me to say anything against indigenous peoples," he said. "You can kick Christians, you can kick Catholics. That's the message that it sends >to us and that's what it feels like; we're Europeans and we lop Indians' heads off. Which is just not true."
Fuck off with your persecution complex. Nobody is saying that you lop Indians' heads off. We're saying the European explorers who originally came here were responsible for many atrocities and we shouldn't be celebrating that.
Im more of a Leif Erikson fan anyway.
And Spanish and Italian nationalists too.
and historically those vikings didn't go about raping and pillaging the native americans
Tbh, it was probably solely because they didn't have any gold.
I mean, the entire US of today was built on the exploitation and extermination of a technologically inferior people and the self-aggrandizing delusion of "if god let us shoot all these savages, that must mean we're in the right". Some people did want to coexist with the natives peacefully but they weren't "winning" enough to be remembered today the same way literal traitors are still celebrated as national heroes because the Union declined to kill them all because they're Christians and not "savages".
These so-called Christians deserve all the shit they're getting. All the religions do because hypocrisy and delusion has only seeped deeper into the consciousness of the modern devotee. For many people it's not about being better, it's about thinking you're better and thinking everyone else is worse than you because they don't think like you. That's how you get people who say you can't be a good person without being a Christian while conveniently ignoring they themselves make a living defrauding the sick, the sad, the poor and the elderly.
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