Anonymous
Post 10/14/2019 20:18     Subject: Happy Indigenous Peoples Day
We like to call it Canadian thanksgiving
Anonymous
Post 10/14/2019 20:06     Subject: Happy Indigenous Peoples Day
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.
Anonymous
Post 10/14/2019 20:00     Subject: Happy Indigenous Peoples Day
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.
Anonymous
Post 10/14/2019 17:03     Subject: Happy Indigenous Peoples Day
Columbus sailed in 1492.

Italy wasn’t a country until late 1800s.

He was likely Portuguese anyway.
Anonymous
Post 10/14/2019 15:19     Subject: Re:Happy Indigenous Peoples Day
I think a day to celebrate First Nations is a great idea, but I wouldn’t want to celebrate me on the day a great tragedy befell me. It seems odd to choose this day.
Anonymous
Post 10/14/2019 15:05     Subject: Happy Indigenous Peoples Day
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.”


What do you think of Americus Vespucci?
Anonymous
Post 10/14/2019 14:46     Subject: Happy Indigenous Peoples Day
Do away with it completely. Too many federal holidays now.
Anonymous
Post 10/14/2019 14:04     Subject: Happy Indigenous Peoples Day
Anonymous wrote:I appreciate the sentiment, but can DC come up with something that is less of a mouthful?


How is it a mouthful? Easy concept to understand and say.
Anonymous
Post 10/14/2019 14:03     Subject: Happy Indigenous Peoples Day
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.”
Anonymous
Post 10/14/2019 13:56     Subject: Happy Indigenous Peoples Day
I would greatly prefer First Nations.
Anonymous
Post 10/14/2019 13:28     Subject: Happy Indigenous Peoples Day
Happy Indigenous People's Day, from this Italian-American who loathes Christopher Columbus!
Anonymous
Post 10/14/2019 13:27     Subject: Re:Happy Indigenous Peoples Day
Happy Columbus Day!
Anonymous
Post 10/14/2019 13:07     Subject: Happy Indigenous Peoples Day
Native Americans?
Anonymous
Post 10/14/2019 13:01     Subject: Re:Happy Indigenous Peoples Day
DC didn’t come up with this, the movement has been around for years.
Anonymous
Post 10/14/2019 12:56     Subject: Happy Indigenous Peoples Day
I appreciate the sentiment, but can DC come up with something that is less of a mouthful?