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S.R.'s avatar

Are people really unaware that Columbus was *not* Italian, at all? He was recently genetically determined to have been Jewish and, likely, Spanish. Although admittedly, this is a very recent development.

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Owlftr13's avatar

I'm a 60 something Italian American whose grandparents were born in this country. We hate Columbus because he was genocidal maniac and thief.

Cuomo is an asshole and always has been.

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Mart's avatar

I was like 42 when I read Columbus never made it to the United States. Shocking!

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mzf's avatar
May 25Edited

" ... Rockefeller anywhere (though, sure, the guy does have a few things named after him). "

The most prestigious school in NYC is the little known Rockefeller University. It has a ton of Nobel Laureates and only accepts graduate students who get a salary and an apartment near Rockefeller U.

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Boethius Unconsoled's avatar

This all gets a bit convoluted, Andy - time to catch up...it's seems you've culturally misappropriated the wrong guy....

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg2049ezpko

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Peter MacMonagle's avatar

Columbus was a cruel governor of "San Salvador" and the Taino Indians were badly treated. That's why people don't think he is so wonderful.

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josephebacon's avatar

I don't refer to it as Columbus Day.

I prefer to call it Chef Boyardee Day in remembrance of that great Italian-American coming to the rescue of Pennsylvania farmers during the Depression saving their farms by having them grow tomatoes for his factory.

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Ward From Cali's avatar

Columbus basically lied about the size of the Earth in order to make a western route to China look feasible and get his lunatic dreams funded. If he had not gotten crazy lucky and found a couple of continents in his way, he would have been tortured and killed in gorily creative ways by his mutinous crew as they starved to death over a thousand miles from anything. Possibly a derelict ship full of dessicated and partially eaten corpses might have eventually wandered into the easterlies and made it back to Europe decades later.

It would have been mad footnote in the age of exploration until Walter Herzog made a brilliant, disturbing movie about it, a famous character study of sheer, manic lunacy starring Klaus Kinski. It would have been even better than the one we got, because three small cramped ships alone in the sea is even more claustrophobic and terrifyingly hostile than the Amazon jungle.

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AKLynne's avatar

Let me count the ways. Hmm, an invader who didn't really “discover” anything and didn’t even set foot on mainland North American soil, thief, murderer, kidnapper, rapist, enslaver, racist, torturer, bringer of disease and famine…what have I missed? Oh yeah, he was Italian. That must be it.

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Second Laws's avatar

Enrico Fermi.

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MsEdgyNation's avatar

That is a lovely idea, but it's sensible, so probably not gonna happen.

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Stranger Than Friction's avatar

We're living through the Triumph of the (Reprehensible, Corrupt, Venal) Assholes, aren't we. Why don't they pick a great, decent Italian, or female Italian, to celebrate Italian culture? This shows a brittle insecurity about their cultural background. C'mon NYC! Cuomo was and is an unrepentant garbage human. You can do better! Thanks Robyn.

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