Columbus Day

[Nadir Aminu]

Should Columbus day be a holiday in America? Discuss.

[Arthur Wellington]

Yeah, sure, He started to exodus from criminals and low lives from Europe to the Americas

[New Scandanavia]

No he is a genocidal pimp who extorted and practically killed every native on that island he "discovered"

[Caecus]

It's irrelevant what we call it. It's a paid leave day, I don't care if you call it "fluffy-unicorn-devil-worship day," that's a good 3 day weekend for me.  

[Dimitri Valko]

It's irrelevant what we call it. It's a paid leave day, I don't care if you call it "fluffy-unicorn-devil-worship day," that's a good 3 day weekend for me.  

 

Exactly this.

I hate Columbus, but hey, we have a long weekend.

[New Scandanavia]

Ya me to how about Bernie sanders day

[Alex]

They should probably rename it, call it "Discovery Day" or something.

[Nadir Aminu]

I think we should rename it Leif Erikson day or Viking Day. I'm fine with staying out of school and being away from bunch of lunatics.  Columbus lead to the attempted genocide of the Native Americans.

[Dimitri Valko]

I think we should rename it Leif Erikson day or Viking Day. I'm fine with staying out of school and being away from bunch of lunatics.  Columbus lead to the attempted genocide of the Native Americans.

 

Leif Erikson Day is already a holiday, though.

We should instead take work and school off that day.

[Nadir Aminu]

Leif Erikson Day is already a holiday, though.

We should instead take work and school off that day.

I know. We are going to DC to protest to rename this day to something else, right?

[Dimitri Valko]

I know. We are going to DC to protest to rename this day to something else, right?

 

[Nadir Aminu]

So, you want to go now?

[Dimitri Valko]

So, you want to go now?

 

[Nadir Aminu]

I see two 'nos'. That's a double negative. You do!

[Dimitri Valko]

I see two 'nos'. That's a double negative. You do!

 

[Nadir Aminu]

I'm just kidding. That would've been a negative plus a negative.

[New Scandanavia]

They should probably rename it, call it "Discovery Day" or something.

he did not descover anything

[Dimitri Valko]

he did not descover anything

 

[Doktor Avalanche]

A paid Holiday? Yes.

For Christopher Columbus? No.

Indigenous People's Day? Sure.

Pink Fluffy Unicorns? Sure.

Khorne? Hell yes.

[Alex]

he did not descover anything

 

"Discovery Day" doesn't imply that Christopher Colombus necessarily discovered anything, though he obviously did "discover" the Americas and bring knowledge of their existence to late 15th century Europe. "Discovery Day" could be for a lot more than Colombus, you could interpret it as when the Vikings discovered North America, or treat it in the sense of all discoveries (every major finding over the last few hundred years, not necessarily related to geography.)

[Belisarius]

In parts of Texas, we just call it "Fair Day" given that the State Fair of Texas is currently in action. It's a good way for local communities to punt the naming of Columbus Day by pretending it's something else entirely. But not many people care about the naming here because 1.) there is not a large Native American population to agitate for a formal name change and 2.) there is not a large Italian-American community to agitate to keep the name. 

 

Personally, I think the name should be changed on the Federal level to something generic. Kinda how they changed "Armistice Day" to "Veterans Day." Call it something else. 

[Kurdanak]

Relevant Cracked video:

Edited October 12, 2015 by Kurdanak

[Hiroshima]

Let's rewrite history cause it's offensive as well.

[Doktor Avalanche]

Let's rewrite history cause it's offensive as well.

kind of happening, sadly.

[Peter Quill]

Yes, America should keep celebrating a man who tried to wipe out every single living inhabitant on every place he supposedly found.