DU begins new voter outreach program in Columbus, Ohio

[Mr Mannn]

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029685765

jcmaine72 (201 posts)

Having cities named after Columbus, along with a holiday honoring him, is a national disgrace.
What exactly are we paying tribute to when we're honoring Columbus? It's a legacy irredeemably tainted by genocide, enslavement, land theft, sheer brutality on a global scale, racism and religious bigotry (among other things). We've thankfully taken down many Confederate flags and monuments, but the genesis of the Confederacy's cruel and barbaric slave culture is still honored and celebrated (albeit in fewer and fewer places each year...Thank goodness!). It's positively disgraceful, and should be a source of great national shame. We should have evolved past this, even with all the deplorable dead weight our oft times backward and lowbrow culture has to tow.

Therefore, every statue honoring Columbus must come down. Every city named after him must be renamed. Columbus Day must not be celebrated. After all, in light of what celebrating such a man represents at its core, doesn't simple, human decency demand it?

tip of the hat to Konsurvative at DI for spotting it first.

[AzJames73]

DUmmy probably works at Jack in the Box and has to work that day.

[SVPete]

jcmaine72 (201 posts)

Having cities named after Columbus, along with a holiday honoring him, is a national disgrace.

   OMG! That kind of ignorance and stupidity should be painfully fatal!  

How many cities, counties and  states are named for slave owner George Washington?

How many cities and counties are named for slave owner Thomas Jefferson?

How many cities and counties are named for slave owner and Indian fighter Andrew Jackson?

And what about the D Party's Jefferson and Jackson Dinner?

What about that coastal town in California named for Braxton Bragg?

For that matter, how about D Presidents Wilson and Roosevelt naming so many Army bases for Confederate Generals?

And what's with all those California cities named for missions that supposedly oppressed the indigenous people?

Just off the top of my head.

[SVPete]

DUmmy probably works at Jack in the Box and has to work that day.

I doubt it. Because of the W-word.

[freedumb2003b]

:rotf:  :lmao: OMG! That kind of ignorance and stupidity should be painfully fatal! :lmao:  :rotf:

How many cities, counties and  states are named for slave owner George Washington?

How many cities and counties are named for slave owner Thomas Jefferson?

How many cities and counties are named for slave owner and Indian fighter Andrew Jackson?

And what about the D Party's Jefferson and Jackson Dinner?

What about that coastal town in California named for Braxton Bragg?

For that matter, how about D Presidents Wilson and Roosevelt naming so many Army bases for Confederate Generals?

And what's with all those California cities named for missions that supposedly oppressed the indigenous people?

Just off the top of my head.

I say we start with more recent buildings and parks named for the KKK Grand Cyclops sheets byrd.

[SVPete]

I say we start with more recent buildings and parks named for the KKK Grand Cyclops sheets byrd.

  That'd change the names of places and buildings all over the State of West Virginia!

There're so many bogeymen and demons for the SJWs to exorcise! Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black was a member of the KKK back in the 20s.

[Old n Grumpy]

Having cities named after Columbus, along with a holiday honoring him, is a national disgrace.
What exactly are we paying tribute to when we're honoring Columbus? It's a legacy irredeemably tainted by genocide, enslavement, land theft, sheer brutality on a global scale, racism and religious bigotry (among other things).

I don't see the problem here, it is called progress, the ideology all you "progressives" worship.

If it wasn't for Columbus, you would be living in a tepee, freezing in the winter and sweating in the summer. Not to mention suffering from disease, malnutrition and shitting in the bushes.

So quit complaining unless you want  to move out.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Shouldn't President Obama have gotten rid of it as a federal holiday?  Blame him, you f-ing whiners.

[Movie buff- The Sequel]

The smugness and elitism are off the charts with this one. I can picture this DUmmy having his nose in the air and speaking in an extra- haughty tone as he wrote it.
A couple points in response to his demanding that Columbus Day should no longer be celebrated:
1. The holiday has since kind of shifted focus from a celebration of the man himself into more of a general celebration of Italian culture (Much like how St. Patrick's Day has shifted focus from a celebration of the man himself into a general celebration of Irish culture). As such, I could see some Italian- Americans responding to his demand by, appropriately enough, openly accusing him of bigotry against their culture.
2. The unions would never allow it to be banned. Any holiday which can lead to union workers getting a paid day off is a holiday which the unions will fight tooth and nail to protect.

[Happy Fun Ball]

That moment when South Park ceases to be a comedy and becomes prophecy.

Just two weeks ago, the episode was about this specific thing.