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Why Columbus Day Should Be Abolished


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I haven't, and will not be bothered to watch the videos. Sounds like a whole lot of SJW butthurt. Should we listen to butthurt SJWs? Of course not :)

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For some reason I don't even see a video. Though I will say that I'm not a fan of Columbus day myself. Not sure if it should be abolished, but would shed no tears if it was.

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When is Columbus day even celebrated? Is it a public holiday in some countries, its not in mine?

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As long as those that get the day off still get it after this demanded change, no big deal.

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I'd have gone with Watson, somewhat of a larger impact than Schafer.

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When is Columbus day even celebrated? Is it a public holiday in some countries, its not in mine?

 

October 12, Anniversary date of Columbus' arrival in the Americas (October 12, 1492).  A US Federal Holiday.

 

I believe it used to be a Federal Holiday for several South American countries as well, but I think these have been changed to things like Discovery Day (Bahamas) or Day of the Americas (Belize?) rather than to be specifically about Columbus. 

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I thought that the age of exploration was started by the Phoenicians.

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Who discovered Europe?

 

Lucy's ancestors:

 

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Wow that's a fascinating image, its interesting to see how mankind spread through the world 

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Yes yes, historical figure is not a nice guy, yada yada.  He still kickstarted the age of exploration.

I thought it was Henry the Navigator who was 'given' that honour.

 

 

He is the first guy I teach the students about in the unit.   :thumbsup:

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When is Columbus day even celebrated? Is it a public holiday in some countries, its not in mine?

 

October 12, Anniversary date of Columbus' arrival in the Americas (October 12, 1492).  A US Federal Holiday.

 

I believe it used to be a Federal Holiday for several South American countries as well, but I think these have been changed to things like Discovery Day (Bahamas) or Day of the Americas (Belize?) rather than to be specifically about Columbus. 

 

It's also the Spanish national holiday. It's celebrated in some Latin American countries, as you say, under various motifs (resistance against Yuropeans, Race Day, encounter of cultures, etc). It's not called Columbus' Day here, we call it "Hispanidad" ("Hispanicity"), though I'm not sure how much the sentiment is shared elsewhere...

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I am immediately changing my lesson plans and putting Bugs in as a central character.

 

 

That may be the one time Bugs didn't get lost at Albuquerque.

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Sure why not. We'll ban Columbus day. Then all the dead natives will come back to life, we'll roll back the clock to 1492, all the whites will go back to Europe and die of the plague, the natives will continue on with the mighty united civilization they weren't building and it will be like all of this never happened. It all sounds so simple, why didn't we think of it before.

 

But seriously ban it if you want. No one will notice and unless you work in the f-----g post office you weren't getting the day off anyway.

 

If meaningless gestures like this keep the SJWs going one more day without killing themselves from they shame they have no business feeling then ban away.

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Sure why not. We'll ban Columbus day. Then all the dead natives will come back to life, we'll roll back the clock to 1492, all the whites will go back to Europe and die of the plague, the natives will continue on with the mighty united civilization they weren't building and it will be like all of this never happened. It all sounds so simple, why didn't we think of it before.

 

But seriously ban it if you want. No one will notice and unless you work in the f-----g post office you weren't getting the day off anyway.

 

If meaningless gestures like this keep the SJWs going one more day without killing themselves from they shame they have no business feeling then ban away.

Will the blacks be going back to Africa in this scenario? If so, is the true desire of the SJW to see blacks back to Africa, because that would explain San Francisco and Portland.

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To be fair, in that out of africa map, there is a certain point (I think around 20000 years ago) where those living in Africa were futher apart from those living in Europe than us.

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