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Columbus Day was changed to Feather Indian Day

What's so special about Columbus that he needs to have a day dedicated to him? He wasn't the first one to arrive in America, not even the first European. Yes, thanks to him a genocide was started, but do you also celebrate Adolf Hitler day? He didn't found the US or any other new country, he instead tried claiming everything for the king of Spain. 'Indigenous Peoples Day' doesn't make much sense either (why does any people need a day dedicated to them? Better to have a day of mourning to remember the genocide that took place), but Columbus day was retarded from the start.
 
Skyclad1uhm1 said:
What's so special about Columbus that he needs to have a day dedicated to him? He wasn't the first one to arrive in America, not even the first European. Yes, thanks to him a genocide was started, but do you also celebrate Adolf Hitler day? He didn't found the US or any other new country, he instead tried claiming everything for the king of Spain. 'Indigenous Peoples Day' doesn't make much sense either (why does any people need a day dedicated to them? Better to have a day of mourning to remember the genocide that took place), but Columbus day was retarded from the start.
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Go get laid.
 
Over here in Stupidfornia, we celebrate undocumented migrant worker day instead of Columbus Day.
 
If you actually read what Columbus did, then it's hard to really venerate him. And it's not like he really was smarter than all the other sailors. Most others knew that the earth was much larger and that Columbus wouldn't make it to india. He just got lucky that North America existed.
 
pcgeek11 said:
God! Another PC Bull Chip thread.
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I'm curious, if you are a 4th grade teacher on the subject Columbus discovers America, little Johnny raises his hand and says, "Mr. Pcgeek11, weren't there people here when Columbus landed? How did he discover it?"

Your answer is?
 
HomerJS said:
I'm curious, if you are a 4th grade teacher on the subject Columbus discovers America, little Johnny raises his hand and says, "Mr. Pcgeek11, weren't there people here when Columbus landed? How did he discover it?"

Your answer is?
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The people deserved killing anyway. Manifest destiny, baby.
 
preslove said:
If you actually read what Columbus did, then it's hard to really venerate him. And it's not like he really was smarter than all the other sailors. Most others knew that the earth was much larger and that Columbus wouldn't make it to india. He just got lucky that North America existed.
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So on Indigenous Peoples Day, will kids learn about how great those people were? Or will they learn about how they killed each other just as mercilessly as Columbus killed the Indigenous People?

This is just more white guilt and phony history.
 
Skyclad1uhm1 said:
What's so special about Columbus that he needs to have a day dedicated to him? He wasn't the first one to arrive in America, not even the first European.
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Columbus never arrived in America. He wasn't looking for it, and he didn't find it. The reason he has a day named after him is because of Italian Americans. Which makes perfect sense given that the Italians (Venetians and Genoans if you want to get all picky) thought he was batshit crazy and he had to go to France and Spain to get anyone to take him seriously.

Here's one reason I personally respect the guy's memory: one of the most remarkable feats of navigation in the history of humans and the sea. Read "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" by Samuel Elliot Morrison. It's worthwhile.
 
Markbnj said:
Columbus never arrived in America. He wasn't looking for it, and he didn't find it. The reason he has a day named after him is because of Italian Americans. Which makes perfect sense given that the Italians (Venetians and Genoans if you want to get all picky) thought he was batshit crazy and he had to go to France and Spain to get anyone to take him seriously.

Here's one reason I personally respect the guy's memory: one of the most remarkable feats of navigation in the history of humans and the sea. Read "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" by Samuel Elliot Morrison. It's worthwhile.
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The United States of America isn't America, it's just a collection of states within the continent. North-, Central- and South-America together form America. While he didn't visit 99% of it, he did visit America.
 
BoberFett said:
So on Indigenous Peoples Day, will kids learn about how great those people were? Or will they learn about how they killed each other just as mercilessly as Columbus killed the Indigenous People?

This is just more white guilt and phony history.
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All people war with each other over resources. Thats nature. What we did was exterminate an entire people, an entire way of life. You cant compare the two as if they have the same effect.
 
Markbnj said:
Columbus never arrived in America. He wasn't looking for it, and he didn't find it. The reason he has a day named after him is because of Italian Americans. Which makes perfect sense given that the Italians (Venetians and Genoans if you want to get all picky) thought he was batshit crazy and he had to go to France and Spain to get anyone to take him seriously.

Here's one reason I personally respect the guy's memory: one of the most remarkable feats of navigation in the history of humans and the sea. Read "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" by Samuel Elliot Morrison. It's worthwhile.
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From Europe, it would seem to be no real feat of navigation to get to the America (s)

To circumnavigate the world like Drake & Magellan is a feat.

Both Capes are a challenge to get through/around. And then to get to another location afterwards.
 
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JSt0rm said:
All people war with each other over resources. Thats nature. What we did was exterminate an entire people, an entire way of life.
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Their weaker immune systems killed more of them than any American or European bullets. Nature killed off their way of life. At worst Columbus and Europeans exposed them to that side of nature and then took advantage of the adverse effects.
 
JSt0rm said:
All people war with each other over resources. Thats nature. What we did was exterminate an entire people, an entire way of life. You cant compare the two as if they have the same effect.
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LOL, as expected, here comes one now to attempt to justify a dumb opinion.

We killed the natives over resources. We wanted the land they occupied. There's no difference.

You don't think one tribe of ever exterminated another tribe, eliminating that other tribe's entire way of life?

What's the difference except the size of the tribe?
 
Why doesn't 'Murrica just celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving instead? Can never have too many excuses to stuff yourself with turkey and pumpkin pie. :thumbsup:
 
BoberFett said:
LOL, as expected, here comes one now to attempt to justify a dumb opinion.

We killed the natives over resources. We wanted the land they occupied. There's no difference.

You don't think one tribe of ever exterminated another tribe, eliminating that other tribe's entire way of life?

What's the difference except the size of the tribe?
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OK celebrate genocide. Thats your business. I prefer to learn from the past and see that it was wrong.
 
JSt0rm said:
OK celebrate genocide. Thats your business. I prefer to learn from the past and see that it was wrong.
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I'm not saying it's good to celebrate Columbus day. I'm saying it's stupid to replace one stupid holiday with another stupid holiday.

Ignorance is still officially celebrated in the US, it's just shifting to politically correct ignorance.
 
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