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Old 10-13-2015, 01:26 PM
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I say we keep Columbus Day...and combine it with two other celebrations to make a new "Columbus/Manifest Destiny/Slave Market Day". There's no reason why the Italian guy should get all the notoriety when the founders and subsequent generations did such magnificent genocidal work as well.
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I say we keep Columbus Day...and combine it with two other celebrations to make a new "Columbus/Manifest Destiny/Slave Market Day". There's no reason why the Italian guy should get all the notoriety when the founders and subsequent generations did such magnificent genocidal work as well.
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Old 10-13-2015, 03:57 PM
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It's not about wallowing in guilt over something that happened over 500 years ago. It's about not wanting to whitewash history of our culture through the glorification of one of our worst. Columbus was a venal vainglorious monster.
Columbus Day is all about selling mattresses.
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Columbus Day is all about selling mattresses.
This could be the foundation of a Broadway play.
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Columbus Day is all about selling mattresses.
I ordered a new wall oven from Home Depot on Columbus day.

Saved about $150 bucks off the regular price!
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Old 10-13-2015, 06:48 PM
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I ordered a new wall oven from Home Depot on Columbus day.

Saved about $150 bucks off the regular price!
Commemorating genocide has its merits after all.
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