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Old 10-12-2015, 02:49 PM
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Originally Posted by finnbow View Post
Nobody's glorifying anything. They're simply taking a day off. With the exception of July 4th, all of our secular holidays are pretty much nothing more than a day off.
Then it shouldn't matter to them if their day off is for Indigenous People's Day instead of Columbian Genocide Day.

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As for what Columbus did, he did pretty much what all European colonizing powers did. Morever, holding his behavior over 5 centuries ago to 21st century standards is a bit disingenuous, if not self-loathing.
Columbus-loathing.

Then let's celebrate Hitler Day in Israel. After all, without him, there'd be no Israel.
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