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If they had changed it to "A Jar Full of Peanuts Day" it would have been an improvement over "Columbus Day." Columbus was an amoral ****ing psychopath who (I genuinely hope) doesn't represent our present values.
Oh yeah, btw....Columbus is a Federal Holiday. They can't change that.
Tell what exactly?
Tell what exactly?
and neither do many past leaders we honor.
Using present day "values" is a poor way to evaluate a persons accomplishments. One should look at historical contexts.
Apparently they did *shrug*
Christopher Columbus, the man credited with discovering the Americas, was a greedy and vindictive tyrant who saved some of his most violent punishments for his own followers, according to a document uncovered by Spanish historians.As governor and viceroy of the Indies, Columbus imposed iron discipline on the first Spanish colony in the Americas, in what is now the Caribbean country of Dominican Republic. Punishments included cutting off people's ears and noses, parading women naked through the streets and selling them into slavery.
"Columbus' government was characterised by a form of tyranny," Consuelo Varela, a Spanish historian who has seen the document, told journalists.
"The monarchs wanted someone who did not give them problems. Columbus did not solve problems, he created them."
Why one group of people also having rocky history means we should celebrate the Hitler of the 1400's who was such a moron that he declared the "new world has been discovered!" despite there already being millions of humans in the Americas...
Even in the context of his own day, Columbus was a bastard.
GODWIN FTW! Hitler of the 1400's :lamo
Nope. They can add to it. But they can't change it. They can claim they changed it all that they want also. But I'll bet you that come Columbus Day banks will close because its Columbus Day...not "Indigenous Day".
So, Native Americans are "opposite" of you, now?
Oh, stop it. The guy was literally responsible for the enslavement and deaths of millions of people.
Oh, stop it. The guy was literally responsible for the enslavement and deaths of millions of people.
Europeans and native peoples were on "opposite" sides when the historical colonization of the Americas took place, were they not?
Why does anyone care? Does anyone on this forum that has commented in this thread actually celebrate Columbus Day? Other than being a bank holiday most people don't get the day off and only notice it because the banks are closed. What difference does it make that Seattle made it a Native American holiday instead? I think some people just look for something to bitch about it.
"...while honoring a people and ignoring all the bad things they did."
Millions of people die? psssh nah he ain't a a predecessor of Hitler...
You receive ultra rare luftwaffe like.
Christopher Columbus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaDe las Casas records that when he first came to Hispaniola in 1508, "there were 60,000 people living on this island, including the Indians; so that from 1494 to 1508, over three million people had perished from war, slavery, and the mines. Who in future generations will believe this? I myself writing it as a knowledgeable eyewitness can hardly believe it...."[79]
Historically speaking, the Caribs were not exactly what you'd call "nice" people. Frankly, neither were the tribes or civilizations found on the mainland.
The tribal societies were roughly about on par with ancient European peoples like the Celts or Germanic tribes. The Aztecs were... Well, the Aztecs.
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