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Edgar Allen Shmoe's avatar

My 7yo asked me about Columbus Day, and I was like, “ugh, Christ, where do I start?” They haven’t gotten to “Columbus sailed the ocean blue” yet in school. Do they still teach that? I want my daughter to know the truth, but I also don’t want her to be the “well, actually...” kid all the time. My wife is also all about fitting in whereas I am more about subversion and getting people to think about the stupid crap they accept without question.

I don’t know if this is a question or what. I guess it was just something I was thinking about. Thank you, that is all.

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DiogenesOfTheVille's avatar

Having indigenous people day on Colombo’s b day is insulting in itself. Also dude was Tuscan where al Sicilian or at least southern. And the fuck do the Anglo Dutch have to say to us. I’m both and when my scotch Irish/ Anglo Dane ansesters wher stealing’s each other’s cows and trying not to starve or get got our Sicilian Ansesters wher working our geometry playing bocce and pertisapating in global trade. Hell we are the see pepole we fucked up the Bronze Age empire’s so bad they came to an end.“History is an accounting of the crimes of humanity.” Murdering slaver “adventurer” is a good gig if you want to make it into the history books. Now to piss every one off blaming Colombo for the doom he brought is over stating the case every 200 years or so the whole damnd Afro-indo-Eurasian cultural complex suffered a die back. If you live with pigs in your hut and you meet someone that’s never been around livestock they are going to get sick and die. This prosess probably isn’t the best way to celebrate a people or rather hundreds of people’s each with ten thousand years of history. How about king Philip’s day. Metacomit month?As for an Italian holiday. How about angol’s Are degenerat Germanic scum driven from there Homelands to squat in the ruins of the Roman west....day

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