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

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**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:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2021, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/columbus-day-v-indigenous-peoples-day-v-leif-erikson-day/952323/44 "2021-10-13T00:14:20Z")

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> [@griffin1977](#):
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> Naming a day after someone, building statues of him, and naming places after him is the very definition of glorifying someone.
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> There is no way it can be construed as anything else. And Columbus is absolutely 100% not someone any society should be glorifying.

That’s fair. I have nothing against changing the _name_ of the holiday, and nothing against taking down statutes of Columbus the individual.

See also this topic

> [@Columbus is down!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/columbus-is-down/855445):
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> This isn’t exactly mundane or pointless, but I’m not sure where to put it. One thing I wouldn’t have predicted was that the current round of protests and the pulling down of statues would include the downing of statues of Christopher Columbus. But at least three statues of Columbus have been taken down in the past couple of days. Here in Boston, the statue of him in the North End park named for him was beheaded this week. “Some demonstrators have said they targeted Columbus statues to stand in…

~Max

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