# In the future, when I fly to the capital of Ohio, will it be to "Indiginous People's City"?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 7, 2017, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-future-when-i-fly-to-the-capital-of-ohio-will-it-be-to-indiginous-peoples-city/798190 "2017-10-07T11:29:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2017, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-future-when-i-fly-to-the-capital-of-ohio-will-it-be-to-indiginous-peoples-city/798190/61 "2017-10-09T22:50:32Z")

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> [@LongTimeLurker](#):
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> Unless you are a government employee, Columbus Day is not a holiday, it is a day off for government employee’s.

I have never been a government employee, but I’ve gotten Columbus Day off the vast majority of time. Only when I was in school was it not routinely a holiday.

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**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-future-when-i-fly-to-the-capital-of-ohio-will-it-be-to-indiginous-peoples-city/798190/62 "2017-10-10T18:07:48Z")

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> [@Starving\_Artist](#):
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> Perhaps the best idea of all is to stop cooking up ways to pit people against each other, ala cultural appropriate, white privilege, Confederacy symbols and disappearing names and people from history. All this does nothing but foster hate and resentment for people on both sides.

Good point. Like you say, the Confederacy symbols were cooked up to pit people against each other, so I agree with you that it’s high time to get rid of them.

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**Author:** ![Dorjan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorjan/32/12440_2.png) [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-future-when-i-fly-to-the-capital-of-ohio-will-it-be-to-indiginous-peoples-city/798190/63 "2017-10-10T19:28:26Z")

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> [@furryman](#):
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> Let’s face it, Columbus was a jerk but shouldn’t we at least honor him for being the first Modern European to discover the new world?

First jerk in a long line of jerks doesn’t get me really excited about the whole honoring thing.

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**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-future-when-i-fly-to-the-capital-of-ohio-will-it-be-to-indiginous-peoples-city/798190/64 "2017-10-10T23:37:54Z")

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Keep going west from Indigenous People City, and you’ll come to Indigenous Peoplapolis…

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**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2017, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-future-when-i-fly-to-the-capital-of-ohio-will-it-be-to-indiginous-peoples-city/798190/65 "2017-10-11T00:30:19Z")

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> [@furryman](#):
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> Let’s face it, Columbus was a jerk but shouldn’t we at least honor him for being the first Modern European to discover the new world?

Technically, we should be honoring the Vikings then.

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