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Old 10-12-2015, 11:23 AM
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Happy Indigenous People's Day!
'Bout time we stopped honoring the monster Cristobal Colon and the inception of the American genocide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Peoples'_Day
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Old 10-12-2015, 11:43 AM
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It is still a Federal holiday so I am off with pay.
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'Bout time we stopped honoring the monster Cristobal Colon and the inception of the American genocide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Peoples'_Day
National Self-Loathing Day!!! Yippee.
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National Self-Loathing Day!!! Yippee.
You have a wry sense of humor.
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National Self-Loathing Day!!! Yippee.
Not at all.

On the other hand, the glorification of what Columbus did, and what he inspired, is pretty fucking loathsome.
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Old 10-12-2015, 01:44 PM
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Only in America is a guy honored for screwing up by going in the wrong direction.
So I am all for Happy whatever day and am taking the day off.
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National Self-Loathing Day!!! Yippee.
Did the Warshington Foreskins lose again?
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Did the Warshington Foreskins lose again?
They did, but took the undefeated Falcons into overtime. I'm starting to pay a little attention to them now that the self-promoting malcontent of a QB (RGIII) has been benched.
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Not at all.

On the other hand, the glorification of what Columbus did, and what he inspired, is pretty fucking loathsome.
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.

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.
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