Columbus Day and revisionist history

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Columbus Day and revisionist history

Postby Muck FcDisney » October 11th, 2022, 12:29 pm

In 1892, after a brutal lynching and mass murder of Italian-Americans in New Orleans, President Harrison declared a one-time national celebration of Italian heritage, hoping to placate Italian-Americans and repair relations with Italy.

They called it Columbus Day.

50 years later, during WW2, FDR labeled Italian-Americans "enemy aliens" and interned them.

To quell outrage over their treatment, FDR reversed his decision and declared Columbus Day a national holiday.

The purpose of making Columbus Day an official holiday was to virtue signal to a marginalized population, while continuing to marginalize them.

Renaming it Indigenous People's Day does the exact same thing.


Happy Tuesday!
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