Replace Columbus Day with Indigenous People Day?

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Personally, I'm for this. Europeans didn't discover the Americas. People were already here.

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Yeah.

Or, just not have any stupid days designated to celebrate random shit arbitrarily.
Last Edit: October 08, 2015, 10:50:59 AM by Fuddy-duddy


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Considering Columbus Day already is nothing but a "discuss how white settlers fucked everything up" day, might as well. Same thing, different name.


 
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Considering Columbus Day already is nothing but a "discuss how white settlers fucked everything up" day, might as well. Same thing, different name.
We fucked up a bunch of savages that weren't going to ever advance or do anything with this land?
Well, yes the Natives weren't exemplars of innocence themselves but genocide isn't exactly the solution.


 
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Considering Columbus Day already is nothing but a "discuss how white settlers fucked everything up" day, might as well. Same thing, different name.
We fucked up a bunch of savages that weren't going to ever advance or do anything with this land?
Well, yes the Natives weren't exemplars of innocence themselves but genocide isn't exactly the solution.
Sure there were less harsh ways to go about it

I just really hate the pity parade circle jerk for Native Americans

Pity parade circle jerk?

By ending the celebration over their genocide?


 
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Considering Columbus Day already is nothing but a "discuss how white settlers fucked everything up" day, might as well. Same thing, different name.
We fucked up a bunch of savages that weren't going to ever advance or do anything with this land?
See, this is the kind of ridiculous, unsubstantiated, racist bullshit that needs to be dealt with on this board. Try reading a fucking book sometime.

Here's a graphic representing Tenochtitlan- the capital of the Aztec empire in modern Mexico City. Tenochtitlan was a sprawling metropolis home to somewhere between 200,000 and 300,000 people when the Spanish arrived.
Spoiler


The Natives had a complex understanding of agriculture. You know corn doesn't exist naturally? Native groups figured out how to fucking make it. And they figured out a great way to grow it with other significant foods and hit a nutrition sweet spot.

There's just... Jesus Christ dude, when was the last time you even tried to learn about Native Americans? How can you seriously say something like that?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpent_Mound

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocmulgee_National_Monument

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Sisters_(agriculture)

http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/nattrans/ntecoindian/essays/indimage.htm

http://www.native-languages.org/iaq14.htm

http://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Cahokia-Mississippians-Studies-Societies/dp/0521520665

https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/firsting-and-lasting



 
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Considering Columbus Day already is nothing but a "discuss how white settlers fucked everything up" day, might as well. Same thing, different name.
We fucked up a bunch of savages that weren't going to ever advance or do anything with this land?
Well, yes the Natives weren't exemplars of innocence themselves but genocide isn't exactly the solution.
Sure there were less harsh ways to go about it

I just really hate the pity parade circle jerk for Native Americans

Pity parade circle jerk?

By ending the celebration over their genocide?
you act like they're so innocent, they're not

also Columbus Day is not a celebration of their genocide, you can take it out of context and misconstrue it all you want it but it isn't

But it is. It's celebrating the "discovery" of the Americas.


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Considering Columbus Day already is nothing but a "discuss how white settlers fucked everything up" day, might as well. Same thing, different name.
We fucked up a bunch of savages that weren't going to ever advance or do anything with this land?
Well, yes the Natives weren't exemplars of innocence themselves but genocide isn't exactly the solution.
Sure there were less harsh ways to go about it

I just really hate the pity parade circle jerk for Native Americans

Pity parade circle jerk?

By ending the celebration over their genocide?
you act like they're so innocent, they're not

also Columbus Day is not a celebration of their genocide, you can take it out of context and misconstrue it all you want it but it isn't

But it is. It's celebrating the "discovery" of the Americas.
We should change it to the discovery that people already lived here.


 
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Considering Columbus Day already is nothing but a "discuss how white settlers fucked everything up" day, might as well. Same thing, different name.
We fucked up a bunch of savages that weren't going to ever advance or do anything with this land?
See, this is the kind of ridiculous, unsubstantiated, racist bullshit that needs to be dealt with on this board. Try reading a fucking book sometime.

Here's a graphic representing Tenochtitlan- the capital of the Aztec empire in modern Mexico City. Tenochtitlan was a sprawling metropolis home to somewhere between 200,000 and 300,000 people when the Spanish arrived.
Spoiler


The Natives had a complex understanding of agriculture. You know corn doesn't exist naturally? Native groups figured out how to fucking make it. And they figured out a great way to grow it with other significant foods and hit a nutrition sweet spot.

There's just... Jesus Christ dude, when was the last time you even tried to learn about Native Americans? How can you seriously say something like that?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpent_Mound

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocmulgee_National_Monument

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Sisters_(agriculture)

http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/nattrans/ntecoindian/essays/indimage.htm

http://www.native-languages.org/iaq14.htm

http://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Cahokia-Mississippians-Studies-Societies/dp/0521520665

https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/firsting-and-lasting
i'm talking about the US Native Americans. I'm not going to deny any kind of racism, growing up around them and seeing how shitty of people they are has given me a certain hatred for them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahokia

Cahokia in the Mississippi valley was home to something like 20,000 natives at its peak. Their access to rivers allowed them to create an extensive trade network that fundamentally altered the course of human geography in the area. They weren't the only major population/commercial center in the continental US, either. Peep that link to Ocmulgee.

Native culture groups were also governmentally diverse. In terms of their polities, they ran governments based on coercion, consensus, and every other degree of the spectrum.


It's an undeniable fact that, at "discovery," Native America existed as a socially advanced, wildly culturally diverse place.



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Anyway Colombus wasn't even the first Euro to land in the Americas. That was basef Leif Erikson.
His father Erik the Red discovered Greenland though. He established settlements in modern day Qarortoq and Nuuk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Settlement

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Settlement


Hell, a guy named Bjarni Herjólfsson was the one who originally made landfall at Helluland and prompted Erikson to make his journey.
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Anyway Colombus wasn't even the first Euro to land in the Americas. That was basef Leif Erikson.
leif erikson day

now that's a day i can get behind

...mostly because it also happens to be my birthday


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Anyway Colombus wasn't even the first Euro to land in the Americas. That was basef Leif Erikson.

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"cuckold" is a gross word anyway

i'm glad it's being ruined tbh


 
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I just really hate the pity parade circle jerk for Native Americans
Considering based Andrew Jackson (Trail of Tears, and who for some reason is on the $20 bill when he hated the National Bank. Talk about irony) and "Manifest Destiny" were two things that essentially drove the Natives away and slaughtered them? Yeah I think it's pretty bad. They honestly DESERVE some pity, and while I'm not here going "it's da white mans fault now! Be ashamed!!!", I think we should all be aware of the tragedies and misdeeds our ancestors did.

It's really crazy how we basically almost wiped an entire culture off the face of the map by killing, and forcefully relocating them. There is no positive spin on it by saying "well we culturally uplifted them" or "they weren't going places anyway".


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I just really hate the pity parade circle jerk for Native Americans
Considering based Andrew Jackson (Trail of Tears, and who for some reason is on the $20 bill when he hated the National Bank. Talk about irony) and "Manifest Destiny" were two things that essentially drove the Natives away and slaughtered them? Yeah I think it's pretty bad. They honestly DESERVE some pity, and while I'm not here going "it's da white mans fault now! Be ashamed!!!", I think we should all be aware of the tragedies and misdeeds our ancestors did.

It's really crazy how we basically almost wiped an entire culture off the face of the map by killing, and forcefully relocating them. There is no positive spin on it by saying "well we culturally uplifted them" or "they weren't going places anyway".
who's this we motherfucker

Were you there? Did you participate?
I say "we" as in WE as American's should be aware of our past and our history and not try to over glorify everything. You know the whole saying "those who don't know history" blah blah. As a history nerd, I feel you should always strive to tell the truth about events that happened, be it good or bad.