MissySassy
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Oct 13, 2021 11:16 AM
MissySassy
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Lolz
KuldFyt
*discovers the sky*
PuckersMcColon
And yet, despite all their rage they're still just rats in a cage.
fiveplusfiveis50
Hmmmmm. *muffled speech* we must inform the king!
WorkerLurker
Happy birthday to the ground
chunglungus
He sucked. https://youtu.be/3MJoKhO9G1g
Hulser
“Colorized” is only appropriate for pictures taken before color photography was common.
Hulser
Do the downvoters disagree with my statement? If so, please tell me what convoluted logic you’re using.
BoobsAreSoMuchFun
When your hero isn't everybody's hero.
MissySassy
When he really isn’t a hero at all
CptNTennille
I don’t know why we just don’t call Columbus Day “First Contact Day”. 1. It can be used universally. 2. It doesn’t put anyone on a pedestal.
CptNTennille
And 3. It’s from Star Trek, which would hopefully be a lesson to people about the dangers of violating the Prime Directive.
RamsesMCMXCI
Until indigenous people are treated equally they deserve to be put on a pedestal. The people who are crying about removing Columbus prove it
chunglungus
If I'm going to celebrate any European discovering America, I'm choosing Leif Erikson. Columbus sucked anyway.
ghostofGracchusBabeuf
Erickson wasn’t exactly love and kittens from what I’ve ready, but he was less into slavery and genocide. Maybe you gotta grade on a curve.
chunglungus
Yea I'm aware, but 500 years earlier and more progressive, so Columbus really has no excuse to be as shitty as he was.
ghostofGracchusBabeuf
The entire history of colonialism pretty much fits into that judgement. There were precious few dissenting voices.
TerraKnight
hey, uuh, America? whatcha doin? like, what dat statue do?
adamrac
Got in the way of almighty wokeness
DeadeicPrints
It shouldn't be there at all? He never actually made it to America and caused a lot of slavery and death where he actually landed.
bolobass
W.. where do you think America starts and ends?
Override9636
Italian-Americans celebrating a guy who sailed under the Spanish flag for landing in the bahamas makes no fucking sense.
BonIvermectin
Columbus is a very, very polarizing figure. Indigenous groups want his holiday exchanged for something more culturally sensitive.
BonIvermectin
But it gets tricky. For a lot of Italian-Americans, removing Colombus Day would be a huge sleight, so it causes a lot of friction.
BonIvermectin
You can tell it's polarizing because everybody's downvoting eachother and having a bad time. Bad times all around.
Override9636
Why would an Italian-American want Columbus to be celebrated? Why not look towards Galileo, Marco Polo, Michelangelo, da Vinci?
Override9636
Hell, the dude didn't even care about Italy, because he ran to Spain to get sponsored for his trip.
BonIvermectin
Because in a time when they had a rough time in America, the US Government named the holiday after Colombus, so it was all they had.