# Columbus Day v Indigenous People's Day v Leif Erikson Day

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [October 11, 2021, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/columbus-day-v-indigenous-peoples-day-v-leif-erikson-day/952323 "2021-10-11T21:56:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2021, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/columbus-day-v-indigenous-peoples-day-v-leif-erikson-day/952323/106 "2021-10-15T00:30:58Z")

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> [@Max\_S](#):
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> You really had to twist those words out of me, and in _any_ other place I would assume you are mocking me rather than having an honest debate.

I didn’t twist those words out of you. Those are your words. I asked questions that might encourage you to connect the dots of what you’re saying, but you kept doubling down. I’ll be perfectly clear, in what you wrote above, you made the white supremacist case for keeping Columbus day.

I have noticed you have a habit of treating painful, emotional topics as some sort of intellectual parlor game, in spite of not having skin in said game, in spite of having little knowledge of the topic. In that light, it’s very possible you’re sincerely oblivious to how offensive you’re coming off here. But it’s far from clear that this is the case.

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