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Seattle Changes Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples’ Day

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Seattle Changes Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples' Day - TIME

gee, I wonder who's running things in Seattle? Where's my thinkin' cap?

I believe we can celebrate "Columbus Day" as the day when "America" first became possible-even if by coincidence. Columbus notwithstanding, even if he is the name attached to the day.

and I can imagine the speeches: Today, on indigenous people's day, we celebrate surrender, being tricked, and discovering that our stone age way of life could not exist when confronted with Renaissance/Modern peoples?
 
Didn't Columbus say something along the lines of "Wow these people give me everything I want, they can be so easily enslaved!"

Yeah we should celebrate him alright :roll:
 
PC run amok.

The only fact is humans are indigenous to earth.

Seems most science backs a migration out of Africa to the rest of the world.
 
JoeTrumps said:
Seattle Changes Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples' Day - TIME

gee, I wonder who's running things in Seattle? Where's my thinkin' cap?

I believe we can celebrate "Columbus Day" as the day when "America" first became possible-even if by coincidence. Columbus notwithstanding, even if he is the name attached to the day.

and I can imagine the speeches: Today, on indigenous people's day, we celebrate surrender, being tricked, and discovering that our stone age way of life could not exist when confronted with Renaissance/Modern peoples?
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Ugh. Typical. :roll:

Sure, Columbus was a bad person. Sure, he probably doesn't deserve to have a holiday named after him.

Replacing it with some gag-worthy P.C. garbage like "Indigenous Peoples Day," however? That's just idiotic.

Replace it with "Discovery Day" or something else along those lines, and give indigenous peoples their own holiday. The only thing the city has accomplished with this particular farce is to substitute one poorly thought out ethnocentric holiday for another on the opposite end of the spectrum.
 
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JoeTrumps said:
Seattle Changes Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples' Day - TIME

gee, I wonder who's running things in Seattle? Where's my thinkin' cap?

I believe we can celebrate "Columbus Day" as the day when "America" first became possible-even if by coincidence. Columbus notwithstanding, even if he is the name attached to the day.

and I can imagine the speeches: Today, on indigenous people's day, we celebrate surrender, being tricked, and discovering that our stone age way of life could not exist when confronted with Renaissance/Modern peoples?
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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.
 
JoeTrumps said:
Seattle Changes Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples' Day - TIME

gee, I wonder who's running things in Seattle? Where's my thinkin' cap?

I believe we can celebrate "Columbus Day" as the day when "America" first became possible-even if by coincidence. Columbus notwithstanding, even if he is the name attached to the day.

and I can imagine the speeches: Today, on indigenous people's day, we celebrate surrender, being tricked, and discovering that our stone age way of life could not exist when confronted with Renaissance/Modern peoples?
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This is the second time today I am reminded of one of these videos. Check it out. The Columbus related stuff starts at about minute 2:15.

 
Porchev said:
This is the second time today I am reminded of one of these videos. Check it out. The Columbus related stuff starts at about minute 2:15.

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What did that have to do with Columbus Day?
 
Cardinal said:
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.
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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.
 
mike2810 said:
and neither do many past leaders we honor.
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Ghandi, Lincoln (controversial as he was in his efforts to keep the union together) and Martin Luther King are past leaders we can look up to.

mike2810 said:
Using present day "values" is a poor way to evaluate a persons accomplishments. One should look at historical contexts.
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Then we should have a Genhis Khan day, because holy crap did that guy make history. Then after that maybe we could have a Happy Great Influenza of 1917 Day.

But more on this later. Time to be all healthy n' stuff...
 
Doesn't bother me.

As long as kids still get a day off.

Anyway, Columbus was a special kind of ****.

mike2810 said:
PC run amok.

The only fact is humans are indigenous to earth.

Seems most science backs a migration out of Africa to the rest of the world.
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Yea, nearly everyone's an immigrant, just depends on if you want to cherry pick human history.

Still, it's commendable to rid the city of that day and replace it with a more wholesome one. Nothing to fuss about.
 
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Perhaps the lack of border security should be discussed. ;)
 
Van Basten said:
Doesn't bother me.

As long as kids still get a day off.

Anyway, Columbus was a special kind of ****.



Yea, nearly everyone's an immigrant, just depends on if you want to cherry pick human history.

Still, it's commendable to rid the city of that day and replace it with a more wholesome one. Nothing to fuss about.
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The Nation should follow suit. Columbus represents the start of the westward march of white Christianity and the approval of the tools know as terror, death and chaos. We are still using these tools, as if we are in our right minds. The evil that was, is. The times have changed, the methods have not.
 
JoeTrumps said:
Seattle Changes Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples' Day - TIME

gee, I wonder who's running things in Seattle? Where's my thinkin' cap?

I believe we can celebrate "Columbus Day" as the day when "America" first became possible-even if by coincidence. Columbus notwithstanding, even if he is the name attached to the day.

and I can imagine the speeches: Today, on indigenous people's day, we celebrate surrender, being tricked, and discovering that our stone age way of life could not exist when confronted with Renaissance/Modern peoples?
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I would have kept it to be honest because it has such name recognition. But if you're going to change it make it something like 'Exploration Day' or 'Plymouth Rock Day' or something similar.
 
JoeTrumps said:
Seattle Changes Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples' Day - TIME

gee, I wonder who's running things in Seattle? Where's my thinkin' cap?

I believe we can celebrate "Columbus Day" as the day when "America" first became possible-even if by coincidence. Columbus notwithstanding, even if he is the name attached to the day.

and I can imagine the speeches: Today, on indigenous people's day, we celebrate surrender, being tricked, and discovering that our stone age way of life could not exist when confronted with Renaissance/Modern peoples?
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Columbus was an abject failure and a genocidal monster. He would be utterly shocked to find out we made a freaking holiday for him.

The man "discovered" a continent already inhabited. Oh, and by the way, he thought he was in India. His navigation was off by about half the planet.
 
I absolutely love how much this bugs the righties. Well done Seattle!
 
JoeTrumps said:
and I can imagine the speeches: Today, on indigenous people's day, we celebrate surrender, being tricked, and discovering that our stone age way of life could not exist when confronted with Renaissance/Modern peoples?
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Yup. That's how it happened :roll:
 
Cardinal said:
Then we should have a Genhis Khan day, because holy crap did that guy make history. Then after that maybe we could have a Happy Great Influenza of 1917 Day.

But more on this later. Time to be all healthy n' stuff...
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Your being ridicules.
George Washington was a slave owner. Should we drop him also?
Oh wait we did. Its now President Day to cover Lincoln and Washington. It made room for MLK.


Don't know what Genhis Khan did for the formation of the USA or had an impact on our history. :mrgreen:
 
Gathomas88 said:
Ugh. Typical. :roll:

Sure, Columbus was a bad person. Sure, he probably doesn't deserve to have a holiday named after him.

Replacing it with some gag-worthy P.C. garbage like "Indigenous Peoples Day," however? That's just idiotic.

Replace it with "Discovery Day" or something else along those lines, and give indigenous peoples their own holiday. The only thing the city has accomplished with this particular farce is to substitute one poorly thought out ethnocentric holiday for another on the opposite end of the spectrum.
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So, Native Americans are "opposite" of you, now?
 
JoeTrumps said:
Seattle Changes Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples' Day - TIME

gee, I wonder who's running things in Seattle? Where's my thinkin' cap?

I believe we can celebrate "Columbus Day" as the day when "America" first became possible-even if by coincidence. Columbus notwithstanding, even if he is the name attached to the day.

and I can imagine the speeches: Today, on indigenous people's day, we celebrate surrender, being tricked, and discovering that our stone age way of life could not exist when confronted with Renaissance/Modern peoples?
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I find it funny that so many hate Columbus and count all the bad things he did while honoring a people and ignoring all the bad things they did.

Yes, this is PC run amok. But it goes farther than what you suggest here.
 
Deuce said:
Columbus was an abject failure and a genocidal monster. He would be utterly shocked to find out we made a freaking holiday for him.

The man "discovered" a continent already inhabited. Oh, and by the way, he thought he was in India. His navigation was off by about half the planet.
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LOL --- now THAT is funny, I don't care who you are!!!
 
mike2810 said:
Your being ridicules.
George Washington was a slave owner. Should we drop him also?
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Oh please, I'm not interested in hors d'oeuvres. When it comes to real monsters I'm talking about the main course. He enslaved an entire race, and in just fourteen years three million natives died from forced mining, enslavement and murder. We're talking about the big leagues of evil here.

Oh wait we did. Its now President Day to cover Lincoln and Washington. It made room for MLK.


Don't know what Genhis Khan did for the formation of the USA or had an impact on our history. :mrgreen:
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Well, how do I put this? Let's just say there aren't terrible odds there's a little Genghis Khan in you right now.
 
Kal'Stang said:
I find it funny that so many hate Columbus and count all the bad things he did while honoring a people and ignoring all the bad things they did.

Yes, this is PC run amok. But it goes farther than what you suggest here.
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Do tell?
 
GBFAN said:
LOL --- now THAT is funny, I don't care who you are!!!
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It gets worse. Contrary to the ideas that American school children tend to end up with, Columbus did not set out to prove the world was round. Everybody already knew that. The Greeks had mathematically proven that, and more than a thousand years before Columbus set sail, geometry had been used to calculate the actual size of the earth. The reason nobody had sailed west from Europe to try and reach Asia before is because every other navigator on the planet knew that was a ridiculous thing to attempt. It was just way, way too far. Columbus thought he knew better than everybody else, based on his self-taught math. He underestimated the size of the earth by a huge margin. It was pure luck that he blundered into a land mass before he starved to death.
 
Oh yeah, btw....Columbus is a Federal Holiday. They can't change that.
 
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