No more Columbus Day in SF

HappyHighwayman

HappyHighwayman

Warning: Do Not Engage
Pretty certain a City can't nullify a national holiday :)

south-park-s21e03c10-dont-post-that_16x9.jpg
 
HappyHighwayman

HappyHighwayman

Warning: Do Not Engage
I have to ask, who are the Italians complaining about this? Do they know who he is (bad murderer), what he actually did (nothing of value)?

It's like Germans saying they really want to keep their Hitler statue.
 
clutchslip

clutchslip

Not as fast as I look.
TylerW said:
I'm okay not celebrating the efforts of a genocider with poor navigation skills.
Click to expand...
Columbus was a geocider???? Please produce some reference to this idea. The guy was a forking adventurer. His aspiration was to find a shortcut to India for trade, thus the name "Indians". He wasn't out to oppress the brown people of the world, for rewriting history sake.
HappyHighwayman said:
Pretty certain a City can't nullify a national holiday :)
Click to expand...
"Sanctuary State" ring a bell. California can't do that, either, but here we are living in a lawless Kalforkya society. Well, unless you are born here and your parents were born here and their parents and the parents of your great grandparents were born here. Then you must obey all laws AND pay extra taxes to support those who weren't born here.
 
UDRider

UDRider

FLCL?
clutchslip said:
Columbus was a geocider???? Please produce some reference to this idea. The guy was a forking adventurer. His aspiration was to find a shortcut to India for trade, thus the name "Indians". He wasn't out to oppress the brown people of the world, for rewriting history sake.

"Sanctuary State" ring a bell. California can't do that, either, but here we are living in a lawless Kalforkya society. Well, unless you are born here and your parents were born here and their parents and the parents of your great grandparents were born here. Then you must obey all laws AND pay extra taxes to support those who weren't born here.
Click to expand...

He didn't set out to oppress brown people, but sure as shit ended up doing it once he stumbled upon them.
 
T

TylerW

Agitator
clutchslip said:
Columbus was a geocider???? Please produce some reference to this idea. The guy was a forking adventurer. His aspiration was to find a shortcut to India for trade, thus the name "Indians". He wasn't out to oppress the brown people of the world, for rewriting history sake.
Click to expand...

You should learn a bit of history. Columbus day is a romanticized version of actual events. He never landed in the united states. He never set foot on the modern day continent. If you want to celebrate an explorer who "Discovered" North America, give your props to Leif Eriksen, who actually did land here, sever hundred years prior.

Columbus completely eradicated the Arawak tribe. He attempted the genocide of what is now modern day Haiti in his attempts to use them as slave labor to extract gold from their land. In doing so, he also kicked off the transatlantic slave trade. Thanks buddy!

https://www.americanheritage.com/content/columbus-and-genocide

The reason we have a holiday at all for him is because it was pushed by the Knights of Columbus, a fraternal catholic organization, because they needed a catholic hero worth celebrating. And he's the dickhead we got. It became a holiday in 1937, less than a century ago.
 
Last edited:
ScarySpikes

ScarySpikes

tastes like burning
I've been celebrating Leif Ericson day for a long time now anyway.

TBH didn't know Columbus day was still a thing.
 
clutchslip

clutchslip

Not as fast as I look.
TylerW said:
You should learn a bit of history. .
Click to expand...
You should learn to just read. The word "genocide" does not appear in that article at all. Why? Because Columbus didn't seek to destroy Indians. He wanted to profit from their land and them. There is no profit in dead people.

Now, can we please discuss why California officials and California residents are above United States Law? And why the hell I have to be a criminal against the United States of America when I don't want to be a criminal? And I don't want to pay money for it, either.

[genocide: the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group.]

:2cents
 
T

TylerW

Agitator
clutchslip said:
You should learn to just read. The word "genocide" does not appear in that article at all.
Click to expand...

The somber chronicle of the events that ended in the genocide of the peaceful Arawaks of the Caribbean islands is amply documented in Columbus’ own letters and journals and in the pages of his most ardent admirer, Father Bartolomé de Las Casas, the great contemporary historian of the West Indies who believed Columbus had been divinely inspired to make the Discovery. But Las Casas was a thoroughly honest writer, and he did not hesitate to pass harsh judgment on his hero for initiating and carrying on the wholesale enslavement for profit of the gentle natives who had affectionately welcomed Columbus and his fellow argonauts to the New World. Throughout his long life Las Casas was an impassioned crusader for the rights and survival of the hapless Indians—his “poor innocents,” as he called them—whose cruel oppression by the Spanish invaders he laid square at Columbus’ door.
Click to expand...

:thumbup
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top