Happy Indigenous Peoples Day

[Anonymous]

Happy Leif Ericsson Day!

[Anonymous]

*Erikson

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We like to call it Canadian thanksgiving

Speaking of, can we start a movement to get thanksgiving in October here? There is not enough time between thanksgiving and Christmas.

[Anonymous]

Columbus discovered America. Get over it.

[Anonymous]

How about Happy Give Back the Land to the Indigenous People Day— and then give them back their land. We are colonizers, occupiers and oppressors. If we really want to do the right thing, we should give back the land.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Columbus discovered America. Get over it.

No, he didn't

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Columbus discovered America. Get over it.

There were people already here before Columbus. Get over it.

[Anonymous]

Is this some lunatics trying to put a guilt trip on you again?
The native Americans had their share of Kings and conguerers and it was not all that rosy fo the conguered people back then

You woke the continent and thrust it into the modern century. Be proud

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would love to change it to something like American Diversity day, that celebrates both our First Nations and the various immigrants who have made our country strong.

Columbus was such an a-hole. Really the worst of “America.”

Haters gonna hate.

You and everybody else alive today have no idea of the mindset in 1492 so I wouldn't judge him or anyone else that I've never met who died almost 600 years ago.

But if we're deciding who to honor with a holiday, then "well I wasn't alive so I can't judge him" isn't particularly compelling. I mean, there are lots of people who died 600 years ago who we can't judge, include many many indigenous Americans whose deaths were the result of this man's choices.

I still think it's weird to honor someone on the birthday of the people We didn't schedule MLK day on James Earl Ray's birthday.

I think maybe we should disconnect days off from these kinds of value statements. Be like the Canadians and just have a "bank holiday". Then figure out a better way to honor our First Nations than staying home from work.

What have the banks ever done to deserve a holiday named after them? They caused the financial crisis.

[Anonymous]

Just remove it and make election day a holiday.

[Anonymous]

After everything Columbus did to the indigenous people of this country, should we be complaining about that the title is a mouthful? Oh poor us privileged white people have to say an extra word.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Columbus discovered America. Get over it.

Did you pass 5th grade?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Columbus discovered America. Get over it.

Just like I discovered Nordstrom’s!
Seriously, anyone who is pro-Columbus should read his journals. He was a Class A Awful Person. Really, even by the standards of his time, an enormous asshole.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Happy Columbus Day!

+1

Great day for humanity.

[Anonymous]

A child sex slaver:

“A hundred castellanoes are as easily obtained for a woman as for a farm, and it is very general and there are plenty of dealers who go about looking for girls; those from nine to ten are now in demand.”

Dude was imprisoned for how bad he was.