Columbus Day

[ChristisKing]

It's tomorrow. It's not Indigenous people day. If it wasn't for Christopher Columbus most of us would be underneath a British monarchy right now.

 

[theHawk]

 

[ChristisKing]

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Don't you mean the far left as those are the people who seem to have a problem with Columbus.

 

[theHawk]

Don't you mean the far left as those are the people who seem to have a problem with Columbus.

LOL. Well they all hate Columbus because he killed some savages.

 

[Moonglow]

It's tomorrow. It's not Indigenous people day. If it wasn't for Christopher Columbus most of us would be underneath a British monarchy right now.

WTF!?

 

[ChristisKing]

LOL. Well they all hate Columbus because he killed some savages.

My guess is that they probably asked for it.

 

[Moonglow]

Don't you mean the far left as those are the people who seem to have a problem with Columbus.

Native American Indians are the far left?

 

[Moonglow]

My guess is that they probably asked for it.

I doubt they requested their demise.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

please celebrate Indigenous Day tomorrow

 

[hjmick]

If it wasn't for Christopher Columbus most of us would be underneath a British monarchy right now.

Qualify your statement. Please. Just what, exactly, did Columbus have to do with the American Revolution?



And point of fact, Columbus was a POS. He was the father of the transatlantic slave trade, he was a sex slaver, he was a mass murderer. He used 9 and 10 year old girls as currency. He was a greedy, wicked man. He didn't even discover the Americas (something done 500 years earlier by Lief Ericson, if anyone can discover a land already occupied by people...), he "discovered" what we now call the Bahamas. The only reason he has a federal holiday? Because the Knight of Columbus lobbied hard for it. They wanted a holiday for an Italian.

You know what? Here, read this:

Christopher Columbus was awful (but this other guy was not) - The Oatmeal

Happy Bartolomé Day.

theoatmeal.com

It done like a comic strip, so you should be okay... but be careful, you may learn something...

 

[WinterBorn]

Columbus was one of the great explorers. But to continue to say he "discovered" America is laughable.

 

[ReinyDays]

The Spanish were burning alive all the non-Catholics on the Peninsula ... just seemed natural to burn non-Catholics in the New World as well ... "make 'em Christians anyway you can" ...

 

[Thunk]

We should have an injun day...

It could be february 29th

We'll celebrate it once every leap year.

 

[rightwinger]

If it wasn't for Christopher Columbus most of us would be underneath a British monarchy right now.

WTF Does Columbus have to do with freedom from the Monarchy?

Are you on drugs tonight?

 

[Oddball]

 

[MaryL]

Liberal progressive Democrats remind me of Liza Simpson, they always step in at the last moment and mention the worst possible facet of a thing to make it look like they are hyper aware that human beings do shit. Martin Luther King wasn't perfect. He was a plagiarist and cheated on his wife, with a tad bit of demagogue thrown in. Nobody is perfect. Not even liberals.

 

[Harry Dresden]

We should have an injun day...

It could be february 29th

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We'll celebrate it once every leap year.

the so called Indian you are showing was an Italian guy....

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Iron Eyes Cody - Wikipedia​

Iron Eyes Cody - Wikipedia

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Iron Eyes Cody (born Espera Oscar de Corti, April 3, 1904 – January 4, 1999) was an American actor of Italian descent who portrayed Native Americans in Hollywood films, famously as Chief Iron Eyes in Bob Hope's The Paleface (1948). He also played a Native American shedding a tear about pollution in one of the … See more

 

[Thunk]

the so called Indian you are showing was an Italian guy....

I'm trying to imagine what injun spaghetti would taste like

 

[MaryL]

I will celebrate Columbus day if only to piss off contrarian progressive liberal wingnuts. Because I am the anti contrarian contrarian.