If you believe that Columbus was a murderous man who killed Indigeneous people why take his day to celebrate Indigeneous people? Isn't it like having a Jew Day on Hitler's birthday?
Because it's important to remember when the killings began in order to not forget why. If they move it to any other day, it would be no different from "Secretary Day" or "Take your dog to work day"
It begins to obiviate the doctrine of discovery which has contributed to the inhumanity of humanity. No more fake history. We will have no future without the truth.
Because eliminating history and tradition to further their political power is what the left does. This, as well as furthering the identity politics and the need for victimization that allows them to create hatred among their base towards old white men. Who better to hate and eliminate than the first white guy who came to America?
This is true, as only a small extremist fringe would really care about 'indigenous Day,' similar to take your dog to work day...
You're going to be very busy remembering 'the killings', since humans have done little else these past million years. Safer to erase all history, since all history is associated with our essential brutality. Quick sticks, burn those books!
It's a "hate that America was put on the white peoples map" Day....AKA.... Hate the United States and replace it with something else" Day. Gotta replace it with something non-white. I dont mind an indigeneous peoples day... Not an unpositive event here and interesting to see the culture. But it shouldn't replace the guy who was instrumental to putting us on the map.
I get what you're saying but what's more important is that our history is slowly and incrementally being erased and rewritten. This has to stop.
Native Americans were not natives from the movie Avatar. When it didn’t rain they ripped the hearts out of their own kids. Spaniard weren’t any better with burning people alive and amputation of hands for failure to deliver enough gold. In reality this holiday celebrates two brutal cultures colliding and one eventually taking over. Just because natives were the victims doesn’t mean they wouldn’t chop you up on first sight if you encountered them alone back then.
The really fun part is that they're actually wailing about (indigenous, in this case) nationhood and sovereignty. The very things they refuse for Western nations. It's not even clever enough to qualify as a double standard. It's just unthinking ideological dumbery.
I'm sure the extreme right would love the killings purged from history. Not because they are embarrassed of them. But so we don't remember what insane extremist ideology invariable leads us to.
If we had a national holiday celebrating Hitler, you would almost have a point . . . and I'd definitely support replacing that holiday. You seriously going to pretend you wouldn't?
Native Americans weren't a monolithic culture. Columbus specifically bragged about how peaceful and welcoming the civilization he destroyed was. The peoples Columbus enslaved and murdered would not "chop you up on first sight." He specifically bragged that their peaceful nature was part of why they would be easy to conquer.
Columbus never encountered either. Hell, the Maya were gone centuries before he sailed. Are you even trying?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_civilization Tell that to those sacrificed Spaniards that their captors were long dead.
Where in that link does it show any contact between Columbus and the Mayans and why did you ignore everything else having to do with Columbus?
Why should I? It looks like I’m talking about the culture that Columbus represented that collided with local cultures. You seem to try to steer the conversation about Native Americans Columbus personally met.
You think Columbus was the first white guy in the new world? You, the party of Trump--the shining example of victim-card mentality--wish to accuse others of identity politics? You should know that Christopher's genocidal actions are historical fact.
Are Indiginous people leftists too.........I thought Sitting Bull was a right wing war hawk who was against Socialized Medicine.
I think we need a White Boy Day. That way maybe you guys would quit your darn bellyaching. We could celebrate by eating Velveeta Cheese on Wonder Bread with Mayonaise and drink cheapndisgusting beer like Budweiser or Miller.
Yeah... all those Mayas and Aztecs in Hispanola sure deserved Columbus' ethnic cleansing, right? God! Columbus never saw a single Aztec! And the only Mayas he might have seen were a handful on a canoe he happened to pass by on his fourth voyage. Read! Books don't bite, you know.