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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Columbus isn’t exactly someone to celebrate. He didn’t “find” anything that didn’t already exist.

My school will be talking about Indigenous Peoples day instead [/quote]

The irony here is that Columbus Day was first celebrated to combat anti-Catholic sentiment and oppression in the United States.

Columbus was no saint, and no he was not the first to set foot in the "New World". And, yes, we should honor those native to this land too, but let's not ignore that the intent of Columbus day was to include a previously marginalized population (i.e. Catholics) and combat the prejudice and discrimination that they faced. You don't need to celebrate the man, but his accomplishments and what they represent set off the chain of events that led to the society we live in today, for better or worse. [/quote]

But now Catholics do an awful lot of the oppressing so the holiday seems outdated.[/quote]

Clearly anti-Catholic bigotry is alive and well. Just because someone who is Catholic does something you despise does not mean "Catholics" as a whole have done it or agree with that person.

I'm assuming you are talking about politics here, and so it should be obvious to you that "Catholics" are not in one political party (D: Biden, Pelosi, etc.  v. R: Murkowski, Collins, etc.), and the biggest conservative offenders are not Catholic (Trump, Mc Connell, etc.). The majority of Catholic Senators are Democrats, and only 12 of the 49 Republican Senators are Catholic. The "offensive" Supreme Court members were "chosen" by Republican non-Catholics, and there are Catholic Supreme Court members who are and have been on the liberal side of the Court, chosen by Democrats. The current Court composition reflects which party appointed, not which religion the Justice is, see. e.g. Obama appointed Catholic Justice Sotomayor and Roosevelt appointed Catholic Justice Murphy, one of the most liberal of our Justices.[/quote]

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